Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal who does not feel at home in nature, who can feel evicted from paradise, the only animal… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
When people can see a vision and simultaneously recognize what can be done step by step in a concrete way to achieve… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If the handbag could think, it would have a terrific inferiority feeling, because, not having been bought, it would feel useless. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. .... For the man… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I think our danger is that we talk one thing, and we feel and act another thing. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We have, in the same way, relegated our own responsibility in what happens to our country to the specialists, who are supposed… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I think American man unconsciously hates his work very often, because he feels trapped by it... imprisoned by it... because he feels… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I would say democracy once meant an organizational society and a state, in which the individual citizen is - feels - responsible,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I feel worried, deeply worried, only about one thing - the possibility that we fall... that we cannot avoid an atomic war. — 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
