All Erich Fromm Quotes
- Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome. Boredom
- There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group. Comfort
- Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He… Administer
- The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the… Absolute
- . . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a… Active
- Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering… Aim
- Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and… According
- Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of… Bear
- The more the drive toward life is thwarted, the stronger is the drive toward destruction; the more life is realized, the less is the strength… Destruction
- Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Art
- Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into, but is something… Activity
- Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice. Concentration
- The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome… Bound
- Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling… Activity
- Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened… Act
- Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love… Act
- That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane. Doe
- Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to… Choice
- If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by… Anachronistic
- ...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our… Achieve
- Freedom does not mean license. Doe
- To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness Ability
- Love is an act of faith. Act
- If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means… Centuries
- The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does… Doe