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Erich Fromm Quotes - Page 7

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In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only tolerate, she must wish and support the child's separation.

In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only tolerate, she must wish and support the child's separation.

Mother, Children, Two

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

Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. .... For the man an attractive girl - and for the woman an attractive man - are the prizes they are after. 'attractive' usually means a nice package of qualities which are popular and sought after on the personality market. What specifically makes a person attractive depends on the fashion of the time, physically as well as mentally. ... Two persons thus fall in love when they feel they have found the best object available on the market, considering the limitations of their own exchange values.

Love, Girl, Fashion

Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.3, A&C Black

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Hope, Mean, Birth

Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.22, Lantern Books

We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.

Dream, Judgment, Awake

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths”, p.39, Open Road Media

Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation.

Men, Self, Progress

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.23, Open Road Media

Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the inner security, happiness, reason and the capacity for love in the individual; it tends to turn him into an automaton who pays for his human failure with increasing mental sickness, and with despair hidden under a frantic drive for work and so called pleasure.

Political, Intellectual, Progress

It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides.

Country, Hate, War

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.58, Open Road Media

Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.

Inspiring, Mom, Mother

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.48, Open Road Media

Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.

Loneliness, Boredom, Greed

Erich Fromm (2013). “To Have Or To Be?”, p.97, A&C Black

In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence, God’s justice, God’s love. The love of God is essentially a thought experience. In the Eastern religions and in mysticism, the love of God is an intense feeling experience of oneness, inseparably linked with the expression of this love in every act of living.

Religious, Expression, Oneness

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.83, Open Road Media

I think what democracy means today, in reality, is to a large extent, manipulated consent - not forced consent, manipulated consent - and manipulated more and more with the help of Madison Avenue.

Mean, Thinking, Reality

Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours.

Thinking, People, Heaven

People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.

Simple, Love Is, Thinking

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.8, Open Road Media

We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much of what "he" thinks and says are the things that everybody else thinks and says; that he has not acquired the ability to think originally - that is, for himself - which alone gives meaning to his claim that nobody can interfere with the expression of his thoughts.

Men, Thinking, Expression

Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.111, Open Road Media

Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

Happiness, Men, Personality

Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.191, Routledge

Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire for freedom, an instinctive wish for submission?

Men, Wish, Desire

Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.17, Open Road Media

The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

Life, Tragedy, Born

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

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

Optimism, Despair, Pessimism

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.725, Open Road Media

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.

Creativity, Acceptance, Self

"Creative Expression: Creativity and Self Exploration". Book by Jennifer Freed, p. 39, 2007.

A relatively primitive village in which there are still real feasts, common artistic shared expressions, and no literacy at all is more advanced culturally and more healthy mentally than our educated, newspaper-reading radio-listening culture.

Real, Reading, Expression

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.392, Open Road Media

Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.

Love Is, Growth, Art Of Loving

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

The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life.

Hero, Passion, Men

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.28, Open Road Media

It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.

Destiny, Order, Years

Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.40, Lantern Books

We talk a great deal about Russia today, and I'm afraid that in twenty years, we and Russia will be more similar than different.

Russia, Years, Twenties

Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.

Home, Sick, Culture

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.589, Open Road Media

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