The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all c... -Erich Fromm

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Erich Fromm , Psychologist
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Erich Fromm was a renowned psychologist and philosopher, known for his influential theories on human behavior, love, and society. His writings continue to be studied and appreciated in the fields of psychology and philosophy.

Erich Fromm Quotes to Explore

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?...
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots....
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime....
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved....
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal....
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardiz...
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?...
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail....
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social pr...
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers....

Science Quotes to Explore

Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives u...
It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or restrict the... where science c...
The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how y...
The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the...
Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful....
The scientist is also a composer... You could think of science as discovering one particular thing - a supernova or whatever. You could also think of ...
I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them....
If spiritual science is to do the same for spirit that natural science has done for nature, it must investigate quite differently from the latter. It ...
Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic....
Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second...