Quotes by Erich Fromm

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Erich Seligmann Fromm was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.
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If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

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The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

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Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

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Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

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Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

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The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

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One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

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The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

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The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

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What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

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Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

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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.

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Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

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Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

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Jesus and Satan appear here as repre sentatives of two opposite principles. Satan is the representative of material consumption and of power over nature and Man. Jesus is the representative of being, and of the idea that not-having is the premise for...

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The experience of humanism is that 'nothing human is alien to me'; that I carry within myself all of humanity; that nothing which exists in any human being does not exist in myself. I am the criminal and the saint. I am the child and the adult. I am ...

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The paradoxical situation with a vast number of people today is that they are half asleep when awake, and half awake when asleep, or when they want to sleep.

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The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life.

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The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

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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 menta...

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Author Bio

  • NameErich Fromm
  • DescriptionGerman social psychologist and psychoanalyst
  • BornMarch 23, 1900
  • DiedMarch 18, 1980
  • CountryGermany
  • ProfessionPsychologist; Philosopher
  • AwardsHumanist Of The Year