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Erich Fromm Quotes - Page 4

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Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Love, Romantic, Faith

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.141, Open Road Media

Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of love, equality, and freedom were really practiced instead of only preached, there would be no need for a special institution(the church) to take care of those principles.

Christian, Mean, Special

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Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

School, Technology, Men

Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.

Men, Marketing, Doe

Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.125, Open Road Media

If I perceive in another person mainly the surface, I perceive mainly the differences,that which separates us. If I penetrate to the core, i perceive our identity, the fact of our brotherhood. This relatedness from center to center - instead of that from periphery to periphery - is 'central relatedness'.

Differences, Brotherhood, Identity

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.52, Open Road Media

Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’.

Mean, Oneness, Today

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

Giving is the highest expression of potency.

Expression, Giving, Charity

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.28, Open Road Media

Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.

Children, Opposites, Growth

One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary, or any other reward, he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.

Meaningful, Men, Knowing

Erich Fromm (2012). “The Sane Society”, p.282, Routledge

I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone or something outside of oneself, union that allows one to put oneself into relationship with others, to feel one with others, without limiting the sense of integrity and independence. Love is a productive orientation for which it is essential that there be present at the same time: concern, responsibility, and respect for and knowledge of the object of the union.

Life, Integrity, Believe

Erich Fromm (1997). “On Being Human”, p.101, A&C Black

To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.

Knowing Who You Are, Birth, Born

Erich Fromm (2013). “Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism”, p.19, Open Road Media

Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards the love of death. This choice man must make at every minute. Never were the consequences of the wrong choice as total and as irreversible as they are today. Never was the warning of the Bible so urgent: 'I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life, that you and your children may live.'

Children, Blessing, Men

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

Man is the only animal that can be bored.

Animal, Men, Vegetarianism

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

Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how to be loved, how to be lovable.

Capacity To Love, People, Problem

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.7, Open Road Media

Today it is not alive. What, then, is this experience of humanism? With the above survey I have tried to show you that the experience of humanism is that — as Terence expressed it — “Nothing human is alien to me”; that nothing which exists in any human being does not exist in myself. I am the criminal and I am the saint. I am the child and I am the adult. I am the man who lived a hundred thousand years ago and I am the man who, provided we don't destroy the human race, will live hundred thousand years from now.

Children, Men, Years

"On Being Human".

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

Art, Effort, Art Of Loving

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.7, Open Road Media

...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving. Could it be that only those things are considered worthy of being learned with which one can earn money or prestige, and that love, which "only" profits the soul, but is profitless in the modern sense, is a luxury we have no right to spend energy on?

Art, Luxury, Soul

True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta match.

Love, Two, Secret

A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.

Dream, Soul, Looks

We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that we- that I- exist. No matter how much he thinks of God or goes to church, or how much he believes in religious ideas , if he, the whole man, is deaf to the question of existence, if he does not have an answer to it, he is marking time, and he lives and dies like one of the million things he produces. He thinks of God, instead of experiencing God.

Wisdom, Religious, Fun

Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without his being aware of it? Yet by a complicated process of indoctrination, rewards, punishments, and fitting ideology, it solves this task by and large so well that most people believe they are following their own will and are unaware that their will itself is conditioned and manipulated.

Believe, Simple, Punishment

Erich Fromm (2013). “To Have Or To Be?”, p.67, A&C Black

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

Worry, Anxiety, Meaning Of Life

Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.265, Open Road Media

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

History, Growth, Connections

Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.134, Routledge

Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life.

Life, Outcomes, Destructiveness

Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.222, Open Road Media

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.

Evil, Giving, Comfort

Erich Fromm (2013). “Psychoanalysis and Religion”, p.39, Open Road Media

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