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Erich Fromm Quotes

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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  (Erich Fromm Quotes) What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal  (Erich Fromm Quotes) Human history begins with man’s act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason  (Erich Fromm Quotes) A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul  (Erich Fromm Quotes) 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  (Erich Fromm Quotes) All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual  (Erich Fromm Quotes) 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  (Erich Fromm Quotes) Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one’s subjective needs and expectations  (Erich Fromm Quotes) If there is no evidence that sport lowers aggression, at the same time it should be said that there is also no evidence that sport is motivated by aggression  (Erich Fromm Quotes) To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness  (Erich Fromm Quotes) The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy  (Erich Fromm Quotes) Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity  (Erich Fromm Quotes) There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around  (Erich Fromm Quotes) Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want  (Erich Fromm Quotes) 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  (Erich Fromm Quotes) Faith is not a weak form of belief or knowledge; it is not faith in this or that; faith is the conviction about the not yet proven, the knowledge of the real possibility, the awareness of pregnancy  (Erich Fromm Quotes) The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event  (Erich Fromm Quotes) Modern man’s happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments  (Erich Fromm Quotes) Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world, showing new things and gadgets, and himself having plenty of money with which to buy them  (Erich Fromm Quotes) 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  (Erich Fromm Quotes) Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead  (Erich Fromm Quotes) Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness  (Erich Fromm Quotes) The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence  (Erich Fromm Quotes) Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it  (Erich Fromm Quotes) 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  (Erich Fromm Quotes) Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self  (Erich Fromm Quotes) 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 Quotes) Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve  (Erich Fromm Quotes) 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  (Erich Fromm Quotes) There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group  (Erich Fromm Quotes)
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