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Erich Fromm Quotes - Page 14

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Finally one arrives at this: the state of sleep has an ambiguous function; in sleep, the lack of contact with the culture brings out the worst and also the best in us.

Finally one arrives at this: the state of sleep has an ambiguous function; in sleep, the lack of contact with the culture brings out the worst and also the best in us.

Sleep, Culture, States

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Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.

Love, Oneness, Erotic

Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.34, Routledge

Modern man is assailed on every side and almost without interruption by noise - of the radio, of television, of headlines, of advertising and of the cinema - of which the greatest part, far from enlightening the mind, blunts and stultifies it.

Men, Mind, Cinema

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Technical Utopias-flying, for example-have been achieved by the new science of nature.The human utopia...a united new humankind living in solidarity and peace, free from economic determination and from war and class struggle-can be achieved, provided we spend the same energy, intelligence, and enthusiasm on the realization of the human Utopia as we have spent on the realization of our technical Utopias.

Determination, War, Struggle

Psychoanalysis , which interprets the human being as a socialized being, and the psychic apparatus as essentially developed and determined through the relationship of the individual to society, must consider it a duty to participate in the investigation of sociological problems to the extent the human being or his/her psyche plays any part at all.

Play, Psychics, Determined

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

The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.

Important, Development, Individual

Erich Fromm (2013). “Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx and Freud”, p.188, Open Road Media

I would define myself as a Marxian, and that means of course also as a humanist.

Mean, Humanist, Courses

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What is for me socialism is exactly the opposite of a bureaucratically-managed culture.

Opposites, Culture, Socialism

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Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought to know everything, and hence that it is a sign of ignorance to be surprised or puzzled by anything.

Education, Ignorance, People

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.

Love, Men, World

Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.64, Routledge

If the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They have what I would call a state capitalism.

Lying, Socialism, States

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The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere matters of subjective taste. But differences in character are ethically of the most fundamental importance.

Character, Differences, Confusion

Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.52, Routledge

The mother's and father's attitudes toward the child correspond to the child's own needs.... Mother has the function of making himsecure in life, father has the function of teaching him, guiding him to cope with those problems with which the particular society the child has been born into confronts him.

Mother, Children, Attitude

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.48, Open Road Media

Love is active penetration of the other person, in which my desire to know is stilled by union. In the act of fusion I know you, I know myself, I know everybody - and I "know" nothing.

Love, Knowledge, Desire

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.36, Open Road Media

The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it

World, Lasts, Desperate

Erich Fromm (1950). “The Fear of Freedom”

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

Sleep, States, Oneself

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There is a creative pleasure, which, for instance, the artisan in the Middle Ages, or in a country like Mexico, still today has - namely the pleasure of creating something. You find quite a few skilled workers who still have that pleasure: maybe in a steel mill; maybe a worker who works with a complicated machine - he has a sense that he is creating something.

Country, Creating, Creative

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Politics and religious leaders [are hindered] by their egotism.

Religious, Leader, Egotism

Women are equal because they are not different any more.

Women, Different, Equal

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.21, Open Road Media

To love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one individual, in so far as it is divorced from love for man, can refer only to the superficial and to the accidental; of necessity it remains shallow.

Mean, Men, Individual

Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.101, Routledge

Our main way of relating ourselves to others is like things relate themselves to things on the market. We want to exchange our own personality - or as one says sometimes, our "personality package" - for something.

Personality, Want, Way

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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.

Love, Maturity, Immature

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

The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is concentrated, it matters little what one is doing. The important, as well as the unimportant things, assume a new dimension of reality, because they have one's full attention.

Reality, Unimportant Things, Littles

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.114, Open Road Media

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.

Quality, Looks, Authority

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.108, Open Road Media

Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world, showing new things and gadgets, and himself having plenty of money with which to buy them.

Men, Heaven, Vision

Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.135, Routledge

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