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« Our contemporary Western society, despite its material, intellectual and social progress, is rapidly becoming less suitable for mental health and tends to undermine, in each individual, internal security, happiness, reason, the ability to love; it tends to make him an automaton that pays for his failure on the human level by ever more frequent mental illnesses and a despair that hides under a frenzy of work and supposed pleasure. »
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Erich Fromm
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Erich Fromm
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« Only critical thinking allows man to appreciate reality at its true value. »
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Erich Fromm
The art of listening |
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The art of listening
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« It is essential to learn to form critical judgments, the critical mind being the only weapon preserving man from the dangers of life, his only defense. To lack a critical mind is to expose oneself to influences, suggestions, errors and widespread lies, which indoctrinate from the very first hour. We are neither free nor ourselves, we do not enter the heart of our being, until we have developed our critical judgment, and in a sense also a certain cynicism. »
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Erich Fromm
The art of listening |
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Erich Fromm
The art of listening
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