Erich Fromm Quotes about Feelings

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Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.

Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.

Erich Fromm

Practice, Discipline, Feelings

To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

Erich Fromm

Strong, Decision, Feelings

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

A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet 'for sale', who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society.

Erich Fromm

Lonely, Suffering Of Others, Feelings

Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Being”, p.90, Open Road Media

Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self disappears to a large extent, and where the aim is to belong to the heard. If I am like everybody else, if I have no feeling or thoughts which make me different, if I conform in custom, dress, ideas, to the pattern of the group, I am saved: saved from the frightening experience of aloneness.

Erich Fromm

Self, Ideas, Feelings

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

Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which determines the forms of awareness.

Erich Fromm

Practice, Feelings, Society

Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.65, Open Road Media

If the handbag could think, it would have a terrific inferiority feeling, because, not having been bought, it would feel useless.

Erich Fromm

Thinking, Feelings, Handbags

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Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.

Erich Fromm

Tyrants, Political, Feelings

Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.135, Open Road Media

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

Erich Fromm

Spiritual, Envy, Feelings

Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.235, Routledge