Famous Quotes / Erich Fromm
60 Quotations by Erich Fromm
- 1. As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
- 2. Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities ...
- 3. Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not underst ...
- 4. By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which the person experiences himself as an alien. He ...
- 5. Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be b ...
- 6. Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
- 7. Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.
- 8. Giving is the highest expression of potency.
- 9. Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ...
- 10. Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence: the pro ...
- 11. Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the ...
- 12. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a ...
- 13. If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
- 14. Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love yo ...
- 15. Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you ...
- 16. In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is ...
- 17. Integrity simple means not violating one's own identity.
- 18. Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction ...
- 19. Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process re ...
- 20. Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the cause ...