All Erich Fromm Quotes
- Man always dies before he is fully born. Always Dies
- Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. Charity
- The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist. Chief
- There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. Fail
- We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. Connection
- Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought. Conventional
- There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise… Acted
- Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss… Both
- The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. All
- There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. Except
- Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture. Biological
- The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from… Beautiful
- There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. Activity
- Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in… Authority
- Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the… Considering
- Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. Called
- Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human… All
- Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the… Act
- It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings.… Assumed
- Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person… Attitude