Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with -… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“If I am what I have and if what I have is lost, who then am I? Nobody but a defeated, deflated,… — 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 real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man,… — 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
We talk about equality, about happiness, about freedom - and about the spiritual values of religion, and about God - and in… — 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
. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I think, to be specific, we got off the track when we concentrated more and more on production of things. Thereby, we… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Ethical principles stand above the existence of the nation and that by adhering to these principles an individual belongs to the community… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The more the drive toward life is thwarted, the stronger is the drive toward destruction; the more life is realized, the less… — 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
“When a person feels that he has not been able to make sense of his own life, he tries to make sense… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Each new step into his new human existence is frightening. It always means to give up a secure state, which was relatively… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“What does one person give to another? He gives of himself, of the most precious he has, he gives of his life.… — 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
“The wealth of data to be found in social and political life. The belief that people do not want to make sacrifices… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards… — 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
“Society must be organized in such a way that man's social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“There is a specific variant of the principle of the guaranteed income which, although not likely to be accepted at present, constitutes… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Both the mentally healthy and the neurotic are driven by the need to find an answer [to the problem of human existence],… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Love is possible only if two persons communicate with each other from the center of their existence, hence if each one of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“The most important sphere of giving, however, is not that of material things, but lies in the specifically human realm. What does… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Happiness should be something which results from the creative, genuine, intense relatedness - awareness, responsiveness, to everything in life - to man,… — 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
People seek a new orientation, a new philosophy, one which is centered on the priorities of life-physically and spiritually-and not on the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We forget that, although each of the liberties which have been won must be defended with utmost vigour, the problem of freedom… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“If the individual realizes his self by spontaneous activity and thus relates himself to the world, he ceases to be an isolated… — 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
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