Erich Fromm Quotes


Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. Erich Fromm Charity 128
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. Erich Fromm Greed 115
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' Erich Fromm Love 111
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist. Erich Fromm Power 108
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. Erich Fromm Security 105
Si percibo en otra persona nada ms que lo superficial percibo principalmente las diferencias lo que nos separa. Si penetro hasta el ncleo percibo nuestra identidad el hecho de nuestra hermandad. Erich Fromm Genius 100
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. Erich Fromm Consumerism 100
The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone. Erich Fromm Attachment 97
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. Erich Fromm Capable 95
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. Erich Fromm Doubt 94
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. Erich Fromm Love 92
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man. Erich Fromm Nature 87
Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which determines the forms of awareness. Erich Fromm Society 87
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. Erich Fromm Life 86
Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it. Erich Fromm Time 85
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. Erich Fromm Become 84
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. Erich Fromm Power 80
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. Erich Fromm Death 80
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I? Erich Fromm Property 80
Authority is not a quality one person has, in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him. Erich Fromm Another 80
The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. Erich Fromm Able 79
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself. Erich Fromm Act 78
The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have. Erich Fromm Affluent 78
A vast sector of modern advertising… does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress its objects emotionally and then make them submit intellectually. Erich Fromm Emotion 77
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. Erich Fromm Being 74
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent. Erich Fromm Love 73
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? Erich Fromm Age 72
Free man is by necessity insecure; thinking man by necessity uncertain. Erich Fromm Uncategorized 70
Man always dies before he is fully born. Erich Fromm death 69
Man may be defined as the animal that can say I, that can be aware of himself as a separate entity. Erich Fromm Identity 68
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. Erich Fromm Politics 67
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. Erich Fromm Life 66
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. Erich Fromm courage 64
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. Erich Fromm Recognition 58
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. Erich Fromm Love 58
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies. Erich Fromm Creativity 57
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask. Erich Fromm Ascend 55
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self. Erich Fromm Creativity 52
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Erich Fromm Love 52
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. Erich Fromm Art 51
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted. Erich Fromm Reason 47
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. Erich Fromm Love 47
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. Erich Fromm Society 46
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. Erich Fromm Present 45
There is nothing inhuman evil or irrational which does not give some comfort provided it is shared by a group. Erich Fromm Belief 43
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. Erich Fromm Equality 42
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. Erich Fromm Activity 41
Hanya ada satu kepastian yaitu kepastian tentang masa lampau. Sedangkan tentang masa depan yang ada hanyalah kepastian tentang kematian Erich Fromm Life and death 41
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason. Erich Fromm Uncategorized 40
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. Erich Fromm Love 39

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