Creative Quotations from . . .
Erich Fromm
(1900-1980) born on Mar 23
German-US psychoanalyst. "He dealt with the problem of Western man coming to terms with sense of isolation, e.g., "Escape from Freedom," 1941."
 
   
F
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

R
"Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man."
A
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
N
Modern man thinks he loses something -- time -- when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.
K
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "Inspiring Quotations," by Albert W. Wells, Jr., 1988."
R: ""The Sane Society," ch. 3, "The Need for a Frame of Orientation and Devotion," 1955."
A: "In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."
N: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
K: "In "Artists in Quotation," by Donna Ward La Cour, 1989."



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