I think [Karl] Marx, Pope John XXIII or Rosa Luxemburg [had achieved the mode of existence].But it would be useless to look… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that… — 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
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 think the Russians might do away with the terror in twenty or thirty or years, when they are richer, and when… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual… — 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
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
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
If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I think what democracy means today, in reality, is to a large extent, manipulated consent - not forced consent, manipulated consent -… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Happiness today, I think, is for most people the satisfaction of the eternal suckling: to drink in more this, that, or the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I think our danger is that we talk one thing, and we feel and act another thing. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We have, in the same way, relegated our own responsibility in what happens to our country to the specialists, who are supposed… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by… — 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
To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which… — 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 think American man unconsciously hates his work very often, because he feels trapped by it... imprisoned by it... because he feels… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If we begin to say, "Well, maybe we can cope better with the Russians if we also transform ourselves into a managed… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I think we got off the track, as many societies do, who follow successfully one aim, and yet are not capable 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
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