All Erich Fromm Quotes
- Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man. Function
- Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness. Beloved
- Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations. According
- Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self… Aim
- The experience of humanism is that 'nothing human is alien to me'; that I carry within myself all of humanity; that nothing which exists in… Adult
- Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality. Man
- Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to… Backwardness
- Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. .... For the man an attractive girl… Appetite
- Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the… Capacity
- People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult. Difficult
- The third error leading to the assumption that there is nothing to be learned about love lies in the confusion between the initial experience of… Assumption
- Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’. Equality
- In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence, God’s justice, God’s… Act
- Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains… Action
- Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought to know everything,… Capacity
- Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself. Contradiction
- Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth. Any
- Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love. Active
- All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about the existence regardless… All
- In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only… Become One