"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself."

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Source : Man for Himself (1947) ch. 4

Erich Fromm

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“The power to see change in your life can be found in the words you speak. You have the power to set the destiny for your life by what comes out of your mouth.”
“You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.”
“I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.”
“Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.”
“Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.”

Source : Heinz R. Pagels (2012). “The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature”, p.347, Courier Corporation
“An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents...”

Source : Alec Guinness (1986). “Blessings in Disguise”, New York : Knopf
“A pitcher is not a ballplayer.”
“We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.”

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