Erich Fromm 1900 - 1980 - US Psychologist
Erich Fromm, born I in the very onset of the 20th century, was multi-nationality and a multi-professional personality. He was an internationally renowned Jewish-German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, and humanistic philosopher. Having done his graduation from the University of Frankfurt, in the subject of Jurisprudence, he finally came to be associated with what became to be known as The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. His main interests in life revolved around the areas of social theory and the spread of Marxism. The notable ideas that he preached help al his followers to decide and have their individual specific modes of existence.
Erich Fromm postulated five basic principles of Relatedness, Transcendence, Rootedness, Sense of Identity and A frame of Orientation. All his writings and preaching’s were primarily influenced by the thoughts of the famous leader Karl Marx |
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Some of the quotes written by Erich Fromm :
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
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The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
Erich Fromm
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Erich Fromm
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
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Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
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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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Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
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The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.
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In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Erich Fromm
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 task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
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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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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
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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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Erich Fromm
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
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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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Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
Erich Fromm
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
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Man always dies before he is fully born.
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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 no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
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Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
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Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
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There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
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Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.
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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
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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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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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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.
Erich Fromm
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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There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
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We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
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One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
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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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To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
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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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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
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