“The deepest yearning of human beings seems to be a constellation in which the two poles (motherliness and fatherliness, female and male, mercy and justice, feeling and thought, nature and intellect) are united in a synthesis, in which both sides of the polarity lose their antagonism and, instead, co…”— Erich Fromm, amazon.comTagged: Psychology, Philosophy, How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“But a map is not enough as a guide for action; we also need a goal that tells us where to go. Animals have no such problems. Their instincts provide them with a map as well as with goals. But lacking instinctive determination and having a brain that permits us to think of many directions in which we…”— Erich Fromm, amazon.comTagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Philosophy, Psychology