QUOTES by Erich Fromm

Find most favourite and famour Authors from A.A Milne to Zoe Kravitz.

When people can see a vision and simultaneously recognize what can be done step by step in a concrete way to achieve it, they will begin to feel encouragement and enthusiasm instead of fright.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

Man absolutely cannot live by himself.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

If we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals...We have to be political people, I would even say passionately involved political people, each of us in the way that best suits our own temperaments, our working lives, and our own capabilities.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in themselves.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought to know everything, and hence that it is a sign of ignorance to be surprised or puzzled by anything.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

People seek a new orientation, a new philosophy, one which is centered on the priorities of life-physically and spiritually-and not on the priorities of death.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

The hoarders, who are anxiously worried about losing something, are, psychologically speaking, the poor impoverished people, regardless of how much they have. Whoever is capable of giving of themselves is rich.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you can potentially be.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Quote by - Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

Download

But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life.

Quote by - Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

Download

A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

The spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society is such that only the non-conformist can defend himself sufficiently against it. Those who are seriously concerned with love as the only rational answer to the problem of human existence must, then, arrive at the conclusion that important and radical changes in our social structure are necessary, if love is to become a social and not a highly individualistic, marginal phenomenon.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

I believe that the experience of love is the most human and humanizing act that it is given to man to enjoy and that it, like reason, makes no sense if conceived in a partial way.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

I believe that one can and must hope for a sane society that furthers man's capacity to love his fellow men, to work and create, to develop his reason and his objectivity of a sense of himself that is based on the experience of his productive energy. I believe that one can and must hope for the collective regaining of a mental health that is characterized by the capacity to love and to create...
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced only in freedom and never as a result of compulsion. Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a "standing in," not a "falling for." In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem ofhuman existence, then any societywhich excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone or something outside of oneself, union that allows one to put oneself into relationship with others, to feel one with others, without limiting the sense of integrity and independence. Love is a productive orientation for which it is essential that there be present at the same time: concern, responsibility, and respect for and knowledge of the object of the union.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

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.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

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.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

The only way of full knowledge lies in the act of love; this act transcends thought, it transcends words. It is the daring plunge into the experience of union. To love somebody is not just a strong feeling-it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern – and to take the jump and to stake everything on these values.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

We have faith in the potentialities of others, of ourselves, and of mankind because, and only to the degree to which, we have experienced the growth of our own potentialities, the reality of growth in ourselves, the strength of our own power of reason and love.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

Love is active penetration of the other person, in which my desire to know is stilled by union. In the act of fusion I know you, I know myself, I know everybody - and I "know" nothing.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment

Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess. The truth is, there is no such thing as love. Love is an abstraction, perhaps a goddess or an alien being, although nobody has ever seen this goddess. In reality, there exists only the act of loving. To love is a productive activity. It implies caring for, knowing, responding, affirming, enjoying: the person, the tree, the painting, the idea. It means bringing to life, increasing his/her/its aliveness. It is a process, self-renewing and self increasing.
Quote by -

Erich Fromm

(0) Like

(0) Favourite

(0) Comment