Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Love is hot a higher power which descends upon mn nor a duty which is imposed upon him; it is his own… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one's own nation stands for everything that is good and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Jewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Man today is fascinated by the possibility of buying, more, better, and especially, new things. He is consumption hungry... To buy the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more… — 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
Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We are confronted with the possibility of a war of such destruction that the whole existence of our nation and of the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The Russians have succeeded in one thing: they have sold the world the idea that they represent socialism and the ideas of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True… — 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
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
