“Perhaps most trivial talk is a need to talk about oneself; hence, the never-ending subject of health and sickness, children, travel, successes,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“In children we often see this path to knowledge quite overtly. The child takes something apart, breaks it up in order to… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The experience of humanism is that 'nothing human is alien to me'; that I carry within myself all of humanity; that nothing… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“When a person feels that he has not been able to make sense of his own life, he tries to make sense… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The narcissistic, the domineering, the possessive woman can succeed in being a "loving" mother as long as the child is small. Only… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“The child starts out by being attached to his mother as "the ground of all being." He feels helpless and needs the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
What are the conditions of the creative attitude, of seeing and responding, of being aware and being sensitive to what one is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The mother's and father's attitudes toward the child correspond to the child's own needs.... Mother has the function of making himsecure in… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Today it is not alive. What, then, is this experience of humanism? With the above survey I have tried to show you… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“It is hardly necessary to stress the fact that the ability to love as an act of giving depends on the character development of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“The wealth of data to be found in social and political life. The belief that people do not want to make sacrifices is notoriously… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
By equality, one once understood equality in the very same sense in which the Bible speaks of equality: that we are all equal, inasmuch… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
