Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Victor Hugo

Quote by Victor Hugo

Author

Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo, a French romantic poet, novelist, and playwright, was born on February 26, 1802, and died on May 22, 1885. He is considered one of the greatest writers in French literary history, known for his profound humanistic concerns and rich imagination. more

You May Also Like

“Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an "individual," has no choice but to unite himself with the world in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world as destroy his freedom and the integrity of his individual self.”

MenWorldKindSelfChoicesIndividualSecurityIntegrityGainsOriginalsOnenessTiesProductiveEmergingSpontaneityMan And NatureProductive Work
Book:Escape from Freedom
Create image

“The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or political facts provide the real and sufficient explanation of sociological questions. On the other hand, the psychoanalyst must emphasize that the subject of sociology, society, in reality consists of individuals, and that it is these human beings, rather than abstract society as such, whose actions, thoughts, and feelings are the object of sociological research.”

GivingHumansRealFactsFeelingsHandsRealityActionPoliticalIndividualHuman BeingsAnswersMistakeEconomicSubjectsObjectsResearchExplanationSufficientAbstractApplicationSociologyPsychoanalysisThoughts And FeelingsSociologicalPsychoanalytic
Author:Erich Fromm
Create image

“Psychoanalysis , which interprets the human being as a socialized being, and the psychic apparatus as essentially developed and determined through the relationship of the individual to society, must consider it a duty to participate in the investigation of sociological problems to the extent the human being or his/her psyche plays any part at all.”

HumansPlayProblemIndividualHuman BeingsDutyDeterminedInvestigationPsychicsPsychoanalysisSociological
Author:Erich Fromm
Create image

“The same polarity of the male and female principle exists in nature; not only, as is obvious in animals and plants, but in the polarity of the two fundamental functions, that of receiving and penetrating. It is the polarity of earth and rain, of the river and the ocean, of night and day, of darkness and light, of matter and spirit.”

TwoMatterLightEarthSpiritNightAnimalPrinciplesDarknessOceanRainFemaleRiversFunctionFundamentalsPlantMalesObviousReceivingLight And DarknessPolarity
Book:THE ART OF LOVING
Create image

“The narcissistic, the domineering, the possessive woman can succeed in being a "loving" mother as long as the child is small. Only the really loving woman, the woman who is happier in giving than in taking, who is firmly rooted in her own existence, can be a loving mother when the child is in the process of separation.”

GivingChildrenLongMotherProcessExistenceSucceedSeparationRootedNarcissisticPossessiveLoving Mother
Book:The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition
Create image

“The sadistic person is as dependent on the submissive person as the latter is on the former; neither can live without the other. The difference is only that the sadistic person commands, exploits, hurts, humiliates, and that the masochistic person is commanded, exploited, hurt, humiliated. This is a considerable difference in a realistic sense; in a deeper emotional sense, the difference is not so great as that which they both have in common: fusion without integrity .”

PersonsDifferencesHurtCommonEmotionalIntegrityDeeperCommandFormerDependentLatterRealisticExploitsHumiliatedFusionSubmissiveHumiliateSadisticArt Of LovingMasochistic
Book:The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk
Create image