If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place… — 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
The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself, too; if he can love only others, he cannot love at… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Actually, if you take the average American, and studies have shown that, he is really concerned only with private affairs; that is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Love is the productive form of relatedness to others and to oneself. It implies responsibility, care, respect. If it isn't productive and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I want to mention that Marx shares something, if you don't mind the comparison, with the Old Testament: many people talk about… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That is not quite enough to make one happy, if one spends eight hours a day in something which in itself has… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If you do not smile, you are judged lacking in a 'pleasing personality' - and you need to have a pleasing personality… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It is true that one has to think first and then to act - but it's also true that if one has… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess.… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Man today is fascinated by the possibility of buying, more, better, and especially, new things. He is consumption hungry... To buy the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. If one truly responds to man and his future,… — 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 our supreme value is the development of the Western tradition - of a man for whom the highest thing in life… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene. — 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
Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The only concern which I have today is that we have a policy, a foreign policy, which enables us to avoid a… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If there is no evidence that sport lowers aggression, at the same time it should be said that there is also no… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Today, we talk a lot about equality, but I think what most people mean by it is sameness - that everybody is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The average American is not concerned with his society. He talks about it, but you know if one speaks of being concerned,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to… — 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
Love is not easy. All great religions postulate love as one of the greatest accomplishments. If it were that easy, or as… — 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
I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They… — 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
One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if… — 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
