I believe that every man
represents humanity. We are different as to intelligence, health, talents. Yet
we are all one. We are all saints and sinners, adults and children, and no one
is anyone’s superior or judge. We have all been awakened with the Buddha,
crucified with Christ, and we have all killed and robbed with Genghis Khan,
Stalin, and Hitler.
I believe that man can
visualize the experience of the whole universal man only by realizing his
individuality and never by trying to reduce himself to an abstract, common
denominator. Man’s task in life is precisely the paradoxical one of realizing
his individuality and at the same time transcending it to arrive at the
experience of universality. Only the fully developed individual can drop the
ego.
--Erich Fromm
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