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Erich Fromm Quotes - Page 11

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We are concerned with things. We are concerned with success. We are concerned with money. We are concerned with instrumentalities.

We are concerned with things. We are concerned with success. We are concerned with money. We are concerned with instrumentalities.

Concerned

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I need you because I love you.

Love, Romantic, Disappointment

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.

Businessman, Concrete, Aim

Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.124, Open Road Media

The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human nature, and the human necessities as they appear as drives, needs, passions, etc., in any given historical period.

Lying, Passion, Confusion

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

To be concentrated means to live fully in the present.

Mean, Concentration

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.126, Open Road Media

The member of a primitive clan might express his identity in the formula "I am we"; he cannot yet conceive of himself as an "individual," existing apart from his group.

Responsibility, Independence, Identity

Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.61, Routledge

It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.

Death, Tragedy, Dies

Erich, Fromm (1986). “For the love of life”

I would say democracy once meant an organizational society and a state, in which the individual citizen is - feels - responsible, and acts responsibly, and participates in decision-making.

Decision, Democracy, Citizens

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We have faith in the potentialities of others, of ourselves, and of mankind because, and only to the degree to which, we have experienced the growth of our own potentialities, the reality of growth in ourselves, the strength of our own power of reason and love.

Love, Reality, Growth

Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.113, A&C Black

Man always dies before he is fully born.

Death, Men, Born

Man for himself Ch. 3

The same polarity of the male and female principle exists in nature; not only, as is obvious in animals and plants, but in the polarity of the two fundamental functions, that of receiving and penetrating. It is the polarity of earth and rain, of the river and the ocean, of night and day, of darkness and light, of matter and spirit.

Ocean, Rain, Night

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.39, Open Road Media

Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.

Love, Contradiction, Exclusive

Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.120, Open Road Media

Man absolutely cannot live by himself.

Helping Others, Men, People

It doesn't matter whether one uses God or doesn't. What matters is which experience a person has.

What Matters, Use, Matter

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Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there is harmony or conflict; joy or sadness, is secondary to the fundamental fact that two people experience themselves from the essence of their existence, that they are only one with each other by being one with themselves, rather than by fleeing from themselves.

Moving, Sadness, Essence

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.105, Open Road Media

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.

Mean, Self, Century

"The Sane Society". Book by Erich Fromm, p. 102, 1955.

The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or political facts provide the real and sufficient explanation of sociological questions. On the other hand, the psychoanalyst must emphasize that the subject of sociology, society, in reality consists of individuals, and that it is these human beings, rather than abstract society as such, whose actions, thoughts, and feelings are the object of sociological research.

Real, Mistake, Hands

"Psychoanalyse und Soziologie". "Critical Theory and Society : A Reader" by S. E. Bronner, 1989.

The most important things we talk about on Sundays are things to which we pay very little attention.

Sunday, Important, Littles

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If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud.

Useless, Commodity, Fraud

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Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.

Love Life, Life And Death, Life Is

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.31, Open Road Media

I would say that love today is a relatively rare phenomenon, that we have a great deal of sentimentality; we have a great deal of illusion about love, namely as a... as something one falls in.

Fall, Today, Illusion

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Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which determines the forms of awareness.

Practice, Feelings, Society

Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.65, Open Road Media

The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.

Sleep, Men, World

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I believe that one can and must hope for a sane society that furthers man's capacity to love his fellow men, to work and create, to develop his reason and his objectivity of a sense of himself that is based on the experience of his productive energy. I believe that one can and must hope for the collective regaining of a mental health that is characterized by the capacity to love and to create.

Life, Believe, Men

"Credo". Book by Erich Fromm, 1965.

I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it.

Believe, Men, Unity

Erich Fromm (1994). “On Being Human”, Continuum

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