Existence Quotes by Erich Fromm

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

— Erich Fromm

“The mature response to the problem of existence is love.”

— Erich Fromm

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

— Erich Fromm

I think [Karl] Marx, Pope John XXIII or Rosa Luxemburg [had achieved the mode of existence].But it would be useless to look…

— Erich Fromm

The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for…

— Erich Fromm

The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the…

— Erich Fromm

Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes…

— Erich Fromm

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man,…

— Erich Fromm

In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence,…

— Erich Fromm

. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and…

— Erich Fromm

If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem…

— Erich Fromm

The narcissistic, the domineering, the possessive woman can succeed in being a "loving" mother as long as the child is small. Only…

— Erich Fromm

“When a person feels that he has not been able to make sense of his own life, he tries to make sense…

— Erich Fromm

Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there…

— Erich Fromm

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…

— Erich Fromm

If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem…

— Erich Fromm

Man is the only animal who does not feel at home in nature, who can feel evicted from paradise, the only animal…

— Erich Fromm

We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that…

— Erich Fromm

“Man is gifted with reason; he is life being aware of itself he has awareness of himself, of his fellow man, of…

— Erich Fromm

All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about…

— Erich Fromm

We are confronted with the possibility of a war of such destruction that the whole existence of our nation and of the…

— Erich Fromm

A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense…

— Erich Fromm