Erich Fromm Quotes (30 quotations)
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1. 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
2. As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - in himself. - Erich Fromm
3. Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. - Erich Fromm
4. 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
5. 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
6. Immature love says 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' - Erich Fromm
7. In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. - Erich Fromm
8. In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation. - Erich Fromm
9. Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. - Erich Fromm
10. Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. - Erich Fromm
11. Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. - Erich Fromm
12. 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. - Erich Fromm
13. Man's main task is to give birth to himself. - Erich Fromm
14. Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. - Erich Fromm
15. One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. - Erich Fromm
16. Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought. - Erich Fromm
17. Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream. - Erich Fromm
18. 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. - Erich Fromm
19. The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. - Erich Fromm
20. The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. - Erich Fromm
21. 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
22. The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have. - Erich Fromm
23. 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
24. The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. - Erich Fromm
25. There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. - Erich Fromm
2. As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - in himself. - Erich Fromm
3. Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. - Erich Fromm
4. 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
5. 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
6. Immature love says 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' - Erich Fromm
7. In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. - Erich Fromm
8. In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation. - Erich Fromm
9. Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. - Erich Fromm
10. Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. - Erich Fromm
11. Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. - Erich Fromm
12. 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. - Erich Fromm
13. Man's main task is to give birth to himself. - Erich Fromm
14. Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. - Erich Fromm
15. One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. - Erich Fromm
16. Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought. - Erich Fromm
17. Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream. - Erich Fromm
18. 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. - Erich Fromm
19. The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. - Erich Fromm
20. The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. - Erich Fromm
21. 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
22. The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have. - Erich Fromm
23. 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
24. The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. - Erich Fromm
25. There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. - Erich Fromm
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