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Erich Fromm Quotes
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask. - Erich Fromm Quotes
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 which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him. - Erich Fromm Quotes
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 a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. - Erich Fromm Quotes
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. - Erich Fromm Quotes
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. - Erich Fromm Quotes
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I? - Erich Fromm Quotes
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. - Erich Fromm Quotes
Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says I need you because I love you. - Erich Fromm Quotes
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. - Erich Fromm Quotes
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. - Erich Fromm Quotes
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 faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted. - Erich Fromm Quotes
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. - Erich Fromm Quotes
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 personality market. - Erich Fromm Quotes
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. - Erich Fromm Quotes
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of ones own self. - Erich Fromm Quotes
Man always dies before he is fully born. - Erich Fromm Quotes
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. - Erich Fromm Quotes
Mans biological weakness is the condition of human culture. - Erich Fromm Quotes
Mans main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. - Erich Fromm Quotes
Mans main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. - Erich Fromm Quotes
Mans main task is to give birth to himself. - Erich Fromm Quotes
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies. - Erich Fromm Quotes
Mothers love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. - Erich Fromm Quotes
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. - Erich Fromm Quotes
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. - Erich Fromm Quotes
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. - Erich Fromm Quotes
Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought. - Erich Fromm Quotes
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. - Erich Fromm Quotes
That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. 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 hate. - Erich Fromm Quotes
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. - Erich Fromm Quotes
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