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Erich Fromm Quotes - Page 3

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The hoarders, who are anxiously worried about losing something, are, psychologically speaking, the poor impoverished people, regardless of how much they have. Whoever is capable of giving of themselves is rich.

The hoarders, who are anxiously worried about losing something, are, psychologically speaking, the poor impoverished people, regardless of how much they have. Whoever is capable of giving of themselves is rich.

People, Giving, Losing

Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.

Responsibility, Elements, Care

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

A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet 'for sale', who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society.

Lonely, Suffering Of Others, Feelings

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Being”, p.90, Open Road Media

There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness than to think, feel, and say what is ours.

Happiness, Thinking, Joy

Integrity simply means not violating one's own identity.

Integrity, Mean, Identity

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Life, Power, Men

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

There is undoubtedly a difference between people who manipulate other people and people who create things.

Differences, People, Manipulate

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.183, Open Road Media

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.

Giving, Birth, Individual

Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.26, Routledge

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

Mom, Mother, Children

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The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

Want, Affluence, Affluent

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

Love, Life, Romantic

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

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.

Sides, Authority, Irrational

Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.18, Open Road Media

If we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals...We have to be political people, I would even say passionately involved political people, each of us in the way that best suits our own temperaments, our working lives, and our own capabilities.

People, Political, Our Love

The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.

Children, Fighting, Neurosis

Erich Fromm (1947). “Man for Himself”

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Motivational, Freedom, Real

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

Men, Want, Illusion

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

Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization.

Civilization, Doubt, May

Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you can potentially be.

Life, Independent, Tasks

The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own

Mean, Able, Our Thoughts

Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.244, Open Road Media

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Love, Family, Happiness

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.29, Open Road Media

In times of change, learners inherit the earth

Leadership, Times Have Changed, Earth

Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

Inspirational, Motivational, Lying

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.29, Open Road Media

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.

Blessing, Boredom, Paralysis

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

Freedom does not mean license.

Mean, Doe, License

Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.318, Routledge

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

Life, Creativity, Mean

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