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Erich Fromm Quotes - Page 10

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It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry.

It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry.

Unmasking, Arguing, Form

Erich Fromm (2013). “Psychoanalysis and Religion”, p.111, Open Road Media

We talk about equality, about happiness, about freedom - and about the spiritual values of religion, and about God - and in our daily life, we act on principles which are different, and partly contradictory.

Spiritual, Principles, Different

Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.

Reality, Expectations, Needs

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.150, Open Road Media

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 the teachings of the great spiritual leaders of the human race, those of Buddha, the prophets, Socrates, Jesus, Mohammed-he has transformed these teachings into a jungle of superstition and idol-worship. How can mankind save itself from destroying itself by this discrepancy between intellectual-technical overmaturity and emotional backwardness?

Spiritual, Jesus, Revenge

Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.11, Open Road Media

Mother is the home we come from. She is nature, soil, ocean.

Mother, Ocean, Home

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.47, Open Road Media

Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions.

Passion, Thinking, Two

Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.51, Lantern Books

Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess. The truth is, there is no such thing as love. Love is an abstraction, perhaps a goddess or an alien being, although nobody has ever seen this goddess. In reality, there exists only the act of loving. To love is a productive activity. It implies caring for, knowing, responding, affirming, enjoying: the person, the tree, the painting, the idea. It means bringing to life, increasing his/her/its aliveness. It is a process, self-renewing and self increasing.

Love, Mean, Caring

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.

Fear, Thinking, Religion

Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.203, Open Road Media

Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive solution.

Character, Successful, Battle

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.387, Open Road Media

Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.

Reality, Men, Contradiction

"Human Nature and Social Theory". Letter by Erich Fromm to Vladimir Dobrenkov, March 10, 1969.

People seek a new orientation, a new philosophy, one which is centered on the priorities of life-physically and spiritually-and not on the priorities of death.

Philosophy, People, Life And Death

Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.16, Lantern Books

The sadistic person is as dependent on the submissive person as the latter is on the former; neither can live without the other. The difference is only that the sadistic person commands, exploits, hurts, humiliates, and that the masochistic person is commanded, exploited, hurt, humiliated. This is a considerable difference in a realistic sense; in a deeper emotional sense, the difference is not so great as that which they both have in common: fusion without integrity .

Hurt, Integrity, Emotional

Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.101, Open Road Media

To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which should not happen to us, requires faith and courage.

Thinking, Punishment, Challenges

Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.115, A&C Black

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

Men, Saint, Human Nature

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.29, Open Road Media

I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.

Blessing, Bores You, Boredom

Erich Fromm (2014). “The Dogma of Christ: and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture”, p.104, Open Road Media

People have committed suicide because of their failure to realize the passions for love , power , fame , revenge . Cases of suicide because of a lack of sexual satisfaction are virtually nonexistent.

Suicide, Revenge, Passion

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.28, Open Road Media

I believe that the experience of love is the most human and humanizing act that it is given to man to enjoy and that it, like reason, makes no sense if conceived in a partial way.

Life, Believe, Love Is

Erich Fromm (1997). “On Being Human”, p.102, A&C Black

The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give.

Differences, Giving, Joy

I believe that none can "save" his fellow man by making a choice for him. To help him, he can indicate the possible alternatives, with sincerity and love, without being sentimental and without illusion.

Believe, Men, Choices

Erich Fromm (1997). “On Being Human”, p.103, A&C Black

Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.

Happiness, Men, Thrill

Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.3, A&C Black

In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy.

Baby, Real, War

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.56, Open Road Media

Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.

Animal, Men, Identity

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.70, Open Road Media

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.

Dream, Communication, Important

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths”, p.13, Open Road Media

For [Karl] Marx what counts is man. He is the root of everything;while for capitalism, the aim are things, profit, and man is only a means to gain them. As an authentically religious individual, Marx could not be other than against "religion".

Religious, Mean, Men

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According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that, poetry or other art forms.

Dream, Art, Form

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