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" The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. To be objective, to use one's rea-son, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if one has emerged from the dreams of omniscience and omnipotence which one has as a child. "

Erich Fromm , The Art of Loving


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Erich Fromm quote : The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. To be objective, to use one's rea-son, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if one has emerged from the dreams of omniscience and omnipotence which one has as a child.