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 American Psychologist More Erich Fromm Quotes 2
The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have. Erich Fromm American Psychologist More Erich Fromm Quotes 0
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist. Erich Fromm American Psychologist More Erich Fromm Quotes 0
The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. Erich Fromm American Psychologist More Erich Fromm Quotes 0
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. Erich Fromm American Psychologist More Erich Fromm Quotes 0
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. Erich Fromm American Psychologist More Erich Fromm Quotes 0
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. Erich Fromm American Psychologist More Erich Fromm Quotes 0
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. Erich Fromm American Psychologist More Erich Fromm Quotes 0
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. Erich Fromm American Psychologist More Erich Fromm Quotes 0
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. Erich Fromm American Psychologist More Erich Fromm Quotes 0
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself. Erich Fromm American Psychologist More Erich Fromm Quotes 0
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 American Psychologist More Erich Fromm Quotes 0
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. Erich Fromm American Psychologist More Erich Fromm Quotes 0
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. Erich Fromm American Psychologist More Erich Fromm Quotes 0
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. Erich Fromm American Psychologist More Erich Fromm Quotes 0
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 American Psychologist More Erich Fromm Quotes 0
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. Erich Fromm American Psychologist More Erich Fromm Quotes 0
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. Erich Fromm American Psychologist More Erich Fromm Quotes 0
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? Erich Fromm American Psychologist More Erich Fromm Quotes 0
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask. Erich Fromm American Psychologist More Erich Fromm Quotes 0
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 American Psychologist More Erich Fromm Quotes 0
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 American Psychologist More Erich Fromm Quotes 0
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. Erich Fromm American Psychologist More Erich Fromm Quotes 0
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. Erich Fromm American Psychologist More Erich Fromm Quotes 0
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 American Psychologist More Erich Fromm Quotes 0