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  • #1
    Erich Fromm
    “Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.”
    Erich Fromm

  • #2
    Erich Fromm
    “Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.”
    Fromm, Eric, The Art of Loving

  • #3
    Erich Fromm
    “If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being "asocial" or "irrational" in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them. How many lives have been ruined by this need to "explain," which usually implies that the explanation be "understood," i.e. approved. Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds, your real intentions, but know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself—to his reason and his conscience—and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation.”
    Erich Fromm, The Art of Being

  • #4
    Erich Fromm
    “Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.”
    Erich Fromm

  • #5
    Erich Fromm
    “One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”
    Erich Fromm

  • #6
    Erich Fromm
    “It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health.”
    Erich Fromm

  • #7
    Erich Fromm
    “Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult...Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.”
    Erich Fromm

  • #8
    James Joyce
    “History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
    James Joyce, Ulysses

  • #9
    Bertolt Brecht
    “The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.”
    Bertolt Brecht

  • #10
    Malcolm X
    “The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.”
    Malcolm X

  • #11
    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

  • #12
    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #13
    Eoin Colfer
    “Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
    Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

  • #14
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #15
    John Lennon
    “Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.”
    John Lennon

  • #16
    Harlan Ellison
    “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
    Harlan Ellison

  • #17
    Mark Twain
    “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
    Mark Twain

  • #18
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Collected Works

  • #19
    Victor Cousin
    “If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.”
    Victor Cousin, Œuvres de Victor Cousin: Introduction L'Histoire de La Philosophie. Cours de L'Histoire de La Philosophie. Cours de Philosophie Sur Le Fondemen

  • #20
    George Bernard Shaw
    “He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
    George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara

  • #21
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Fear always springs
    from ignorance.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #22
    Alice Walker
    “What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.”
    Alice Walker

  • #23
    Anurag Anand
    “Change the world, I know I won’t,
    Enthralling as always I hope it remains,
    A kaleidoscope of joy, sorrow and pain.
    But my only wish as I take this jaunt,
    Is for my words on you to impress upon,
    A smile, a tear or even an angry frown.”
    Anurag Anand

  • #24
    Paulo Freire
    “Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ”
    Paulo Freire

  • #25
    Paulo Freire
    “The more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled. This person is not afraid to meet the people or to enter into a dialogue with them. This person does not consider himself or herself the proprietor of history or of all people, or the liberator of the oppressed; but he or she does commit himself or herself, within history, to fight at their side.”
    Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

  • #26
    Albert Einstein
    “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #27
    C. JoyBell C.
    “If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #28
    C. JoyBell C.
    “Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #29
    Aristotle
    “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
    Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

  • #30
    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.”
    Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist



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