Thursday, March 08, 2007

Erich Fromm

In his anatomy of Human Destruction, Erich Fromm wrote: “Man is the only animal who not only knows objects but who knows that he knows. Man is the only animal who has not only instrumental intelligence, but reason, the capacity to use his thinking to understand objectively – i.e., to know the nature of things as they are in themselves, and not only as means for his satisfaction. Gifted with self-awareness and reason, man is aware of himself as a being separate from nature and from others; he is aware of his powerlessness, of his ignorance; he is aware of his end: death.”
As a matter of fact, no other living creature on this earth except man who has the temerity to believe that God created man in his own image and likeness. Poch Suzara

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