Erich Fromm

“Aliveness always makes a beautiful.”

— Erich Fromm

Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.

— Erich Fromm

Man absolutely cannot live by himself.

— Erich Fromm

Freedom does not mean license.

— Erich Fromm

Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.

— Erich Fromm

“Man’s main task is to give birth to himself. ”

— Erich Fromm

Love is an act of faith.

— Erich Fromm

We must make a decision of values.

— Erich Fromm

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

— Erich Fromm

Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.

— Erich Fromm

The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.

— Erich Fromm

What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.

— Erich Fromm

The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

— Erich Fromm

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

— Erich Fromm

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

— Erich Fromm

Politics and religious leaders [are hindered] by their egotism.

— Erich Fromm

[Sigmund ] Freud assumes that every dream represents the satisfaction of adesire and in the last analysis, of a sexual desire that…

— Erich Fromm

“If I am what I have and if what I have is lost, who then am I? Nobody but a defeated, deflated,…

— Erich Fromm

Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not…

— Erich Fromm

The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.

— Erich Fromm

While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.

— Erich Fromm

The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it

— Erich Fromm

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of…

— Erich Fromm

People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by…

— Erich Fromm

. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and…

— Erich Fromm

Love is not easy. All great religions postulate love as one of the greatest accomplishments. If it were that easy, or as…

— Erich Fromm

The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere…

— Erich Fromm

In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence,…

— Erich Fromm

“Equality today means “sameness,” rather than “oneness.” It is the sameness of abstractions, of the men who work in the same jobs,…

— Erich Fromm

Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an…

— Erich Fromm

Modern man is assailed on every side and almost without interruption by noise - of the radio, of television, of headlines, of…

— Erich Fromm

I think, to be specific, we got off the track when we concentrated more and more on production of things. Thereby, we…

— Erich Fromm

Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive,…

— Erich Fromm

I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone…

— Erich Fromm

“The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. When pathological…

— Erich Fromm

Man is the only animal who does not feel at home in nature, who can feel evicted from paradise, the only animal…

— Erich Fromm

“The teacher is taught by his students, the actor is stimulated by his audience, the psychoanalyst is cured by his patient—provided they…

— Erich Fromm

“There is a specific variant of the principle of the guaranteed income which, although not likely to be accepted at present, constitutes…

— Erich Fromm

“Perhaps most trivial talk is a need to talk about oneself; hence, the never-ending subject of health and sickness, children, travel, successes,…

— Erich Fromm

The sadistic person is as dependent on the submissive person as the latter is on the former; neither can live without the…

— Erich Fromm