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Erich Fromm Quotes - Page 8

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Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth,

Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

Intelligent, Men, Animal

Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.64, Routledge

A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.

Life, Men, Mind

If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence, then any society which excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature.

Life, Running, Love Is

"The Art of Loving". Book by Erich Fromm, 1956.

You have to stop to change direction.

Change

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love

Love, Attitude, Character

All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.

Growth, Desire, Purpose

Erich Fromm (1941). “Escape from Freedom”, Henry Holt & Company

I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself.

World, Art Of Loving

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.51, Open Road Media

When people can see a vision and simultaneously recognize what can be done step by step in a concrete way to achieve it, they will begin to feel encouragement and enthusiasm instead of fright.

Encouragement, People, Vision

Erich Fromm (2013). “To Have Or To Be?”, p.153, A&C Black

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become ''Golems',' they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.

Future, Past, Men

"The Sane Society". Book by Erich Fromm, p. 102, 1955.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. One can judge objectively to what extent a person has succeeded in his task, to what degree he has realized his potentialities. If he has failed in his task, one can recognize this failure and judge it for what it is - a moral failure.

Men, Giving, Judging

'Man for Himself' (1947) ch. 4

The spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society is such that only the non-conformist can defend himself sufficiently against it. Those who are seriously concerned with love as the only rational answer to the problem of human existence must, then, arrive at the conclusion that important and radical changes in our social structure are necessary, if love is to become a social and not a highly individualistic, marginal phenomenon.

Life, Love Is, Important

"The Art of Loving". Book by Erich Fromm, 1956.

Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.

Insecure, Men, Thinking

Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.196, Routledge

A vast sector of modern advertising... does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress its objects emotionally and then make them submit intellectually.

Trying, Suggestions, Doe

Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.133, Open Road Media

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.

Inspirational, Spiritual, Men

Man for Himself (1947) ch. 4

Basically, there can only be two answers. One is to overcome separateness and find unity by regression to the state of unity which existed before awareness ever arose, that is, before man was born. The other answer is to be fully born, to develop one's awareness, one's reason, one's capacity to love to such a point that one transcends one's own egocentric involvement, and arrives at a new harmony, at a new oneness with the world.

Men, Capacity To Love, Two

Erich Fromm (2013). “Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism”, p.21, Open Road Media

Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.

Peace, Productive Work, Able

Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.107, Routledge

Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity.

Love, Wall, Integrity

ERICH FROMM (1956). “THE ART OF LOVING”

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Love, Smile, Two

Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.101, Open Road Media

The only way of full knowledge lies in the act of love; this act transcends thought, it transcends words. It is the daring plunge into the experience of union. To love somebody is not just a strong feeling-it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

Love, Strong, Lying

I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.

Art, Creativity, Practice

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.11, Open Road Media

Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation.

Men, Belief, Isolation

Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.30, Open Road Media

It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health.

Validation, Ideas, People

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

Love is a power which produces love.

Love Is, Produce

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.30, Open Road Media

If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.

Brother, Government, Liberty

While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given by the simple presence of a mature, loving person.

Teaching, Simple, Important

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.118, Open Road Media

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