The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event. — 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
In fact, there are very important writings of Marx which are not even translated into English. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The most important things we talk about on Sundays are things to which we pay very little attention. — 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
The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. — 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
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Loving becomes, and the ability to love, becomes one of the most important things in life. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
From my personal experience I can conclude that many dreams are clearly written but there are some in which one meets distortions… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of… — 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
