All Erich Fromm Quotes
- What are the conditions of the creative attitude, of seeing and responding, of being aware and being sensitive to what one is aware of? First… All
- Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing;… Acquired
- It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it. Best Love
- I need you because I love you. Disappointment
- Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help… Ability
- Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination.... Child
- The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is. Alive
- Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. Creation
- Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter. Advertising
- Creativity is the ability to see and to respond. Ability
- Giving is the highest expression of potency. Charity
- Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity. Animal
- There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness… Ashamed
- Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines. Act
- To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge. Blind
- One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no… Any
- If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it. All
- Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason. Act
- The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable… Alone
- Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you… Best
- Man is the only animal that can be bored. Animal
- I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice. Art
- Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with… Active
- Integrity simply means not violating one's own identity. Identity
- A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul. Dream