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Erich Fromm Quotes - Page 2

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Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.

Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.

Sadness, What Matters, Doe

Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.

Giving Up, Mean, Self

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

Love, Life, Attachment

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.51, Open Road Media

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

Anger, Future, Past

The Sane Society (1955) ch. 9

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

Block, Power, Men

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

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

Real, Men, Ego

Erich Fromm (1997). “On Being Human”, p.127, A&C Black

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

Sadness, Compassion, Curiosity

ABC TV, May 25, 1958.

The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.

Happiness, Capacity To Love, Growth

Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination.

Children, Love You, Love Is

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.34, Open Road Media

Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer.

Mean, Men, Psychics

Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.

Respect, Unique, Individuality

Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.26, A&C Black

A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism.

Character, Simple, Order

Erich Fromm (2013). “To Have or To Be?”, p.131, Open Road Media

Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.

Men, Fellow Man, Commodity

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.88, Open Road Media

The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

Giving Up, Loss, Self

Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.190, Open Road Media

Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be. Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before.

Eye, Journey, Long

You have to stop in order to change direction.

Order

Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He has constructed a complicated social machine to administer the technical machine he built. The more powerful and gigantic the forces are which he unleashes, the more powerless he feels himself as a human being. He is owned by his creations, and has lost ownership of himself.

Powerful, Men, Machines

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

Love, Life, Philosophical

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

The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears.

Real, Love Is, Objectivity

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.119, Open Road Media

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

Self Esteem, Criminal Mind, Ifs

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

People, Doe, Sanity

Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.74, Open Road Media

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

Life, Animal, Men

Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.40, Routledge

We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

Civilization, Way, Becoming

Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.36, Lantern Books

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

Ladders, Injustice, Mask

FORTITUDE IS THE CAPACITY TO SAY NO WHEN THE WORLD WANTS TO HEAR 'YES'

World, Want, Fortitude

Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.27, Lantern Books

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