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5. “Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.” 6. “The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
A man to a man is a wolf: Plautus' adaptation of an old Roman proverb: homo homini lupus est ("man is a wolf to [his fellow] man"). In Asinaria, act II, scene IV, verse 89 [495 overall]. Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit ("a man to a man is a wolf, not a man, when the other doesn't know of what character he is.") [4]
Fromm's most popular book was The Art of Loving, an international bestseller first published in 1956, which recapitulated and complemented the theoretical principles of human nature found in Escape from Freedom and Man for Himself—principles which were revisited in many of Fromm's other major works.
Seneca Quotes "Life is long if you know how to use it." "True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future." "It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable."
Show your patriotic spirit this 4th of July and other American holidays with these inspiring freedom quotes from the Founding Fathers and other famous figures.
Berlin initially defined negative liberty as "freedom from", that is, the absence of constraints on the agent imposed by other people. He defined positive liberty both as "freedom to", that is, the ability (not just the opportunity) to pursue and achieve willed goals; and also as autonomy or self-rule, as opposed to dependence on others. [5]
Title page. Essays on the active powers of the human mind is a book written by the Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid.The first edition was published in 1788 in Edinburgh.It is the third and last volume in a collection of his essays on the powers of the human mind and was preceded by the first book: Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense (1764), in which Reid focussed on ...
With this in mind, he argued against the emphasis placed by some modern philosophers on egalitarianism and pointed to the use of "compassion" as a source of moral value. In addition, he argued in favor of transcending a mundane existence through the pursuit of creative individual excellence and the realization of a virtuous life as envisioned ...