Quotes by Fromm, Erich




Erich Pinchas Fromm (March 23, 1900 - March 18, 1980) was an internationally renowned German-American psychologist and humanistic philosopher. He is associated with what became known as the Frankfurt School of critical thinkers..

"Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality."

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"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve."

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"Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others."

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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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"Man may be defined as the animal that can say I, that can be aware of himself as a separate entity."

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"Integrity simple means not violating one's own identity."

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"The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone."

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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

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"Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market."

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"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."

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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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"Authority is not a quality one person has, in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him."

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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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"If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?"

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"The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist."

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"In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead."

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"There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers."

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"Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted."

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

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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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"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."

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

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"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."

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

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"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."

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

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"To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable."

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"“To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.”"

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