Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I believe that the experience of love is the most human and humanizing act that it is given to man to enjoy… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries… — 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… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis , which interprets the human being as a socialized being, and the psychic apparatus as essentially developed and determined through the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
To love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one individual,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural… — 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
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
Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I believe that if an individual is not on the path to transcending his society and seeing in what way it furthers… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals...We have to be… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We've wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Technical Utopias-flying, for example-have been achieved by the new science of nature.The human utopia...a united new humankind living in solidarity and peace,… — 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
All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
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 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
