Feels Quotes by Erich Fromm

Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.

— Erich Fromm

There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.

— Erich Fromm

If the handbag could think, it would have a terrific inferiority feeling, because, not having been bought, it would feel useless.

— Erich Fromm

If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud.

— Erich Fromm

I think our danger is that we talk one thing, and we feel and act another thing.

— Erich Fromm

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense…

— Erich Fromm

I feel worried, deeply worried, only about one thing - the possibility that we fall... that we cannot avoid an atomic war.

— Erich Fromm

I think American man unconsciously hates his work very often, because he feels trapped by it... imprisoned by it... because he feels…

— Erich Fromm

Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build…

— Erich Fromm

When people can see a vision and simultaneously recognize what can be done step by step in a concrete way to achieve…

— Erich Fromm

I would say democracy once meant an organizational society and a state, in which the individual citizen is - feels - responsible,…

— Erich Fromm

Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought…

— Erich Fromm

The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not…

— Erich Fromm

There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater…

— 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

I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone…

— Erich Fromm

If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I…

— Erich Fromm

We have, in the same way, relegated our own responsibility in what happens to our country to the specialists, who are supposed…

— Erich Fromm

Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. … For the man…

— Erich Fromm

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of…

— Erich Fromm

Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never…

— Erich Fromm

Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are…

— 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