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Erich Fromm Quotes - Page 5

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The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Men, Order, Giving

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

Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

Life, Country, Peace

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.68, Open Road Media

Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are standardized and can be easily influenced and anticipated ... what is the outcome? Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow man and from nature.

Men, Numbers, Needs

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

Love, Family, Marriage

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.44, Open Road Media

Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.

Freedom, Growth, Fundamentals

Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.290, Open Road Media

Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.

Mean, Judging, Understanding

Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.243, Open Road Media

The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.

Life, Alive, Individual

Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.28, Open Road Media

There is only one reality: the act of feeling ourselves in the process of making choices.

Inspirational, Reality, Choices

Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes; knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth; it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.

Mean, Reality, Order

Erich Fromm (2017). “Fascism, Power, and Individual Rights: Escape from Freedom, To Have or To Be?, and The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.328, Open Road Media

Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced only in freedom and never as a result of compulsion. Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a "standing in," not a "falling for." In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.

Life, Fall, Passion

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

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Love, Family, Happiness

Erich Fromm (2012). “The Sane Society”, p.337, Routledge

Love is the productive form of relatedness to others and to oneself. It implies responsibility, care, respect. If it isn't productive and respectful, it isn't love, but only fear masquerading as love.

Responsibility, Love Is, Care

Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.

Love, Romantic, Judging

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.61, Open Road Media

Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book.

Powerful, Book, Ideas

Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.152, Lantern Books

If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to be as an object for my use. Respect thus implies the absence of exploitation: it allows the other to be, to change and to develop 'in his own ways.' This requires a commitment to know the other as a separate being, and not merely as a reflection of my own ego. According to Velleman this loving willingness and ability to see the other as they really are is foregrounded in our willingness to risk self-exposure.

Commitment, Reflection, Self

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.

Men, Decision, Principles

Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.69, Lantern Books

The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.

Anxiety, Source, Nonviolent Communication

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.14, Open Road Media

Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it.

Loving Nature, Society, Way

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.134, Open Road Media

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

Soulmate, Integrity, Love You

Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.31, Routledge

Love is an act of faith.

Romantic, Faith, Sweet

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

One cannot fall in love, really; one has to be in love.

Falling In Love, Fall

Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life.

Motivation, Real, Passion

When an individual is awake, almost all he does and says is inspired by the model of behavior that the society imposes,even without his being aware of it.

Doe, Inspired, Behavior

Source: www.scribd.com

To be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom I want to love me, maybe this, or that - there is always a fear that love could disappear.

Doubt, Want, Merit

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.47, Open Road Media

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

Children, Character, Parent

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.618, Open Road Media

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