Process Quotes by Erich Fromm

13 Process quotes by Erich Fromm

Erich Fromm examines process through the lens of love and freedom, offering thirteen thoughtful reflections. His writing is philosophical yet grounded, urging readers to consider how inner motives shape outward actions.

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There is only one reality: the act of feeling ourselves in the process of making choices.

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Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation.

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In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes…

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The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature,…

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Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is…

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The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born…

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Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought…

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The two most far-reaching critical theories at the beginning of the latest phase of industrial society were those of Marx and Freud.…

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Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth…

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The narcissistic, the domineering, the possessive woman can succeed in being a "loving" mother as long as the child is small. Only…

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Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without…

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“Freedom is not a constant attribute which we either "have" or "have not." In fact, there is no such thing as "freedom"…

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Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess.…

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Freedom does not mean license.

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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,…

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“The wealth of data to be found in social and political life. The belief that people do not want to make sacrifices is notoriously…

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By equality, one once understood equality in the very same sense in which the Bible speaks of equality: that we are all equal, inasmuch…

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“Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging,…

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“Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations,…

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Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

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To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.

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Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him…

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“Perhaps most trivial talk is a need to talk about oneself; hence, the never-ending subject of health and sickness, children, travel, successes, what one…

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