Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there… — 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 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
In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. .... For the man… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Basically, there can only be two answers. One is to overcome separateness and find unity by regression to the state of unity… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
There is no word in our language which has been so much misused and prostituted as the word love. It has been… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The same polarity of the male and female principle exists in nature; not only, as is obvious in animals and plants, but… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The two most far-reaching critical theories at the beginning of the latest phase of industrial society were those of Marx and Freud.… — 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
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
