Erich Fromm Quotes

• To live is to dream and to die is to awaken.

  Erich Fromm

  Topics in Death

• The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced—by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.

  Erich Fromm

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

  Erich Fromm

  Topics in Art

• There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.

  Erich Fromm

  Topics in Religion

• Infantile love follows the principle: “I love because I am loved.”
  Mature love follows the principle: “I am loved because I love.”
  Immature love says: “I love you because I need you.”
  Mature love says: “I need you because I love you.”

  Erich Fromm

  Topics in Art, Love

  Tags in Maturity

• There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

  Erich Fromm

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Real, Freedom

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Standardization, Social, Process, Equality
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  Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing, or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

  Erich Fromm

  Topics in Effort, Life, Love, Suffering

  Tags in Walking, Breathing, Happy

• If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

  Erich Fromm

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lose

• Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

  Erich Fromm

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Human, Existence

• The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

  Erich Fromm

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Himself, Tolerate, Insecurity

• In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

  Erich Fromm

  Topics in God

• For me to become the highest paid player in the franchise, it was something I didn’t anticipate. But I’m glad. I like playing for Cincinnati.

  Erich Fromm

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Franchise, Player

• 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.

  Erich Fromm

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Activity, Enterprise, Tremendous, Hopes

• Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

  Erich Fromm

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person, Faith, Himself

• What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having s*x appeal.

  Erich Fromm

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Lovable, Culture

• 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 the social process which creates man.

  Erich Fromm

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Beautiful, Human

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

  Erich Fromm

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Animal, Existence, Problem

• Man’s biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

  Erich Fromm

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human, Weakness, Culture

• Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

  Erich Fromm

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Selfish, Persons

Erich Fromm (62)

Birth:	23rd March, 1900
Death:	18th March, 1980
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Philosopher, Psychoanalyst, Psychologist, Sociologist

About

Erich Seligmann Fromm was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He was a German-born American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, author, and humanistic philosopher. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Heidelberg in 1922. In 1934, he moved to USA. In 1946, he co-founded the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology. He taught as a professor of psychology at Michigan State University from 1957 to 1961 and as an adjunct professor of psychology at the graduate division of Arts and Sciences at New York University after 1962. Beginning with his first seminal work of 1941, Escape from Freedom. His second important work, Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics. Fromm's most popular book was The Art of Loving, an international bestseller first published in 1956.

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