#erichs

[guyincognitojr]

[artmagine]

The concept art of Erich Kettelhut for Metropolis (1927), dir. Fritz Lang

[foreverbaby25]

[devouredmelancholy]

[bookofbonbon]

“I used to be a brother and now I’m not a brother anymore.”

THE IRON CLAW (2023)

[nousrose]

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one object of love. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Yet, most people believe that love is constituted by the object, not by the faculty. In fact, they even believe that it is a proof of the intensity of their love when they do not love anybody except the loved person. Because one does not see that love is an activity, a power of the soul, one believes that all that is necessary to find is the right object and that everything goes by itself afterward. This attitude can be compared to that of a man who wants to paint but who instead of learning the art, claims that he has just to wait for the right object and that he will paint beautifully when he finds it.

The Art of Loving

Erich Fromm

[dilf-in-peril]

Kevin Von Erich clutching a yellow rose symbolizing his fallen brother David.

[mysharona1987]

One of the craziest things about the film, tbh.

[quotemadness]

An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.

Erich Fromm

[random-brushstrokes]

Otto Erich Wagner - City View with Illuminated Courtyard (1921)

[megairea]

I was in the land of the moon and I’ve come back, and here you are and you are life.

Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph (tr. by Walter Sorell & Denver Lindley), 1945

[tabsolanya]

Die Ereignisse von 1933 bis 1945 hätten spätestens 1928 bekämpft werden müssen. Später war es zu spät. Man darf nicht warten, bis der Freiheitskampf Landesverrat genannt wird. Man darf nicht warten, bis aus dem Schneeball eine Lawine geworden ist. Man muss den rollenden Schneeball zertreten. Die Lawine hält keiner mehr auf. Sie ruht erst, wenn sie alles unter sich begraben hat.

Das ist die Lehre, das ist das Fazit dessen, was uns 1933 widerfuhr. Das ist der Schluss, den wir aus unseren Erfahrungen ziehen müssen, und es ist der Schluss meiner Rede. Drohende Diktaturen lassen sich nur bekämpfen, ehe sie die Macht übernommen haben.

Erich Kästner: Über das Verbrennen von Büchern

[manny-jacinto]

THE IRON CLAW (2023) dir. Sean Durkin

[illustratus]

A Voyage to the Moon (The Adventures of Baron Munchausen) by Gustave Doré

[seleccionpoetica]

Erich Fromm, El arte de amar.

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[nousrose]

Respect is not fear and awe; it denotes, in accordance with the root of the word respicere = to look at, the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect means the concern that the other person should grow and unfold as he is. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me. If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to be as an object for my use. It is clear that respect is possible only if I have achieved independence; if I can stand and walk without needing crutches, without having to dominate and exploit anyone else. Respect exists only on the basis of freedom.

The Art of Loving

Erich Fromm