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Erich Fromm Quotes - Page 15

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

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

Sex, Mean, People

Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.2, A&C Black

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of life, there are few which are as painful as boredom, and consequently every attempt is made to avoid it.

Evil, Boredom, Painful

Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.202, Routledge

What you might call the "symbol pushers" - that is to say, all of the people who deal with figures, with paper, with men, who manipulate - to use a better or nicer word - manipulate men and signs and words. All those today have not only to sell their service, but in the bargain, they have to sell their personality, more or less. There are exceptions.

Men, People, Personality

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In fifty years activity as an analyst I have witnessed again and again that a dreamer after having met a personage regarded by all as influential and good,saw him again in a dream with a different face.

Dream, Years, Different Faces

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I believe that the unity of man as opposed to other living things derives from the fact that man is the conscious life of himself. Man is conscious of himself, of his future, which is death, of his smallness, of his impotence; he is aware of others as others; man is in nature, subject to its laws even if he transcends it with his thought.

Believe, Men, Law

Erich Fromm (2013). “On Being Human”, p.123, Open Road Media

The narcissistic, the domineering, the possessive woman can succeed in being a "loving" mother as long as the child is small. Only the really loving woman, the woman who is happier in giving than in taking, who is firmly rooted in her own existence, can be a loving mother when the child is in the process of separation.

Mother, Children, Long

Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.47, A&C Black

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

Men, Weakness, Culture

Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.96, Open Road Media

I think, to be specific, we got off the track when we concentrated more and more on production of things. Thereby, we created a split between intellect and emotion, because, in order to produce a modern technique, you have to use intellect, and we have created men who are very brilliant, who are very clever, but our emotional life has become impoverished.

Clever, Men, Emotional

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The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the specialists in the government to take care of.

Government, Average, Care

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I believe indeed that to rescue the humanist tradition of the last decades is of the utmost importance, and that Victor Serge is one of the outstanding personalities representing the socialist aspect of humanism.

Believe, Personality, Lasts

The history of man so far is nothing to brag about, from the standpoint of our ideas - and what I mean is, that in comparison with most other societies, our present-day American society has achieved things which are remarkable: material wealth, greater than for any other nation; a relative freedom from oppression; a relative mobility; a spreading of art, of music, of thought, which is also rather unique.

Art, Mean, Unique

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I am a socialist. However, I have to add that what I understand by socialism is exactly the opposite of what many people, or most people, today mean by socialism.

Mean, Opposites, People

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. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a slave or a well-fed cog in the machine . . . It is not enough that men are not slaves; if social conditions further the existence of automatons, the result will not be love of life, but love of death.

Love Life, Men, Venture

Erich Fromm (1963). “War Within Man: A Psychological Enquiry Into the Roots of Destructiveness”

Love is not easy. All great religions postulate love as one of the greatest accomplishments. If it were that easy, or as easy as most people think, certainly, the great religious leaders would have been rather naive.

Religious, Love Is, Thinking

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The only concern which I have today is that we have a policy, a foreign policy, which enables us to avoid a catastrophe; which, if one understands it properly, is indescribable.

Today, Foreign Policy, Concern

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The average American never loses his sleep about affairs which relate to his society and to our whole country.

Country, Sleep, Average

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Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

Equality, Men, History

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

[Sigmund Freud] makes the interpretation of dreams extremely simple: it deals in substance with discovering what unconscious desires, distorted but recognizable, are hid-den in the dream. Instead, for me the dream is a mixture of thoughts and sensations that man has when he is asleep, a mental state relatively protected from the constant noise that society makes.

Dream, Simple, Men

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Our vitality, and the vitality of each nation, rests on the sincerity and depth of the faith in the ideas which it announces, or pronounces.

Ideas, Vitality, Depth

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It is true that one has to think first and then to act - but it's also true that if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid.

Stupid, Thinking, Acting

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The manual worker does not have to sell his personality. He doesn't have to sell his smile.

Personality, Doe, His Smile

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Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.

Men, Way, Behavior

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.76, Open Road Media

Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world based on human solidarity and justice, only when he can feel rooted in the experience of universal brotherliness, will he have tr

Men, Justice, Done

Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.60, Routledge

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. If one truly responds to man and his future, ie , concernedly and "responsibly." one can respond only by faith or by despair. Rational faith as well as rational despair are based on the most thorough, critical knowledge of all the factors that are relevant for the survival of man.

Men, Optimism, Survival

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.725, Open Road Media

The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.

Art, Important, Needs

Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.349, Routledge

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