Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Erich Fromm quotes, Erich Fromm sayings, and Erich Fromm proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.Erich Fromm
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Happiness is a very proud word of our whole cultural heritage.Erich Fromm
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Socialism is the abolition of human self-alienation, the return of man as a real human being.Erich Fromm
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If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.Erich Fromm
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Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.Erich Fromm
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In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.Erich Fromm
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Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.Erich Fromm
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Fortitude is the capacity to say no when the world wants to hear yes.Erich Fromm
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To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment.Erich Fromm
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Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. Patriotism is its cult.Erich Fromm
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The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life.Erich Fromm
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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.Erich Fromm
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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.Erich Fromm
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True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta match.Erich Fromm
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If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.Erich Fromm
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We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.Erich Fromm
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To be concentrated means to live fully in the present.Erich Fromm
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Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.Erich Fromm
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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind not the fiend or the sadist.Erich Fromm
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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.Erich Fromm
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That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate. Erich Fromm
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Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. Patriotism is its cult.Erich Fromm
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Pleasure and thrill are conducive to sadness after the so-called peak has been reached; for the thrill has been experienced, but the vessel has not grown. Erich Fromm
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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
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As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.Erich Fromm
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Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings.Erich Fromm
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Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings...Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer.Erich Fromm
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Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.Erich Fromm
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Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you can potentially be.Erich Fromm
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Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.Erich Fromm
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