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Erich Fromm Quotes - Page 6

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Intellectuals are hindered on the way to being, by their narcissism.

Intellectuals are hindered on the way to being, by their narcissism.

Way, Narcissism

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I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission.

Believe, Creativity, Reality

Erich Fromm (1994). “On Being Human”, Continuum

I believe that if an individual is not on the path to transcending his society and seeing in what way it furthers or impedes the development of human potential, he cannot enter into intimate contact with his humanity.

Believe, Humanity, Way

Erich Fromm (2013). “On Being Human”, p.114, Open Road Media

Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.

Spiritual, Eye, Journey

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.

Time, Learning, Knowledge

Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.99, A&C Black

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Love, Hope, Expectations

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.10, Open Road Media

I think our danger is that we talk one thing, and we feel and act another thing.

Thinking, Danger, Feels

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Love is the only way of knowledge, which in the act of union answers my quest. In the act of loving, of giving myself, in the act of penetrating the other person, I find myself, I discover myself, I discover us both, I discover man.

Love Is, Men, Giving

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.36, Open Road Media

The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the same thought is to say that the aim of sadism is to transform man into a thing, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life - freedom.

Men, Essence, Quality

Erich Fromm (2011). “The Heart of Man”, p.29, Lantern Books

While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.

Love, Achievement, Realization

Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.104, Open Road Media

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

Men, Psychology, Tools

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.189, Open Road Media

We must make a decision of values.

Decision, Values

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Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

Integrity, Mean, Identity

Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.92, Lantern Books

Whether...a change from the supremacy of natural science to a new social science will take place...depends on one factor: how many brilliant, learned, disciplined, and caring men and women are attracted by the new challenge.

Caring, Men, Challenges

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

Love, Good Morning, Dream

Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.150, Routledge

If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too.

Vices, Love Myself, Virtue

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.63, Open Road Media

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Successful, Political, Nerd

Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.262, Open Road Media

Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.

Hate, Men, Choices

Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.37, Routledge

For the most part, biophiliacs,lovers of life, are found among simple people, without pretensions.

Simple, People, Lovers

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We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

Lonely, People, Unhappy

Erich Fromm (2013). “To Have or To Be?”, p.15, Open Road Media

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Beauty, Beautiful, Men

Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.23, Open Road Media

But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.

Life, Art, Men

Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.26, Open Road Media

I would say love is something everybody talks about, and the need for love is one of the most basic needs of man, namely the experience of union with another being - of becoming one with another being.

Love Is, Men, Becoming One

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What are the conditions of the creative attitude, of seeing and responding, of being aware and being sensitive to what one is aware of? First of all it requires the capacity to be puzzled. Children still have the capacity to be puzzled.

Children, Attitude, Creative

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

Creativity, Acting, Action

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