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Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine.
— Erich Fromm
The mature response to the problem of existence is love.
— Erich Fromm
I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.
— Erich Fromm
Human nature, though being the product of historical evolution, has certain inherent mechanisms and laws, to discover which is the task of psychology.
— Erich Fromm
On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual.
— Erich Fromm
Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.
— Erich Fromm
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
— Erich Fromm
Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.
— Erich Fromm
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled, to concentrate, to accept conflict and tension, to be born every day, to feel a sense of self.
— Erich Fromm
Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience
— Erich Fromm
The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.
— Erich Fromm
Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.
— 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
Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings.
— Erich Fromm
Automatons cannot love; they can exchange their "personality packages" and hope for a fair bargain.
— Erich Fromm
The revolutionary and critical thinker is in a certain way always outside of his society while of course he is at the same time also in it.
— Erich Fromm
Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.
— Erich Fromm
The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.
— Erich Fromm
To know and yet [think] we do not know is the highest [attainment]; not to know [and yet think] we do know is a disease.
— Erich Fromm
There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.
— Erich Fromm
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.
— Erich Fromm
The supremacy of cerebral, manipulative thinking goes together with an atrophy of emotional life.
— Erich Fromm
Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.
— Erich Fromm
[T]he need for speed and newness, which can only be satisfied by consumerism, reflects restlessness, the inner flight from oneself.
— Erich Fromm
Love is an act of faith.
— Erich Fromm
In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.
— Erich Fromm
To be concentrated means to live fully in the present.
— Erich Fromm
Aliveness always makes a beautiful.
— Erich Fromm
Man may be defined as the animal that can say 'I,' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.
— Erich Fromm
Will is based on activity, whim on passivity.
— Erich Fromm
It seems that nothing is more difficult for the average man to bear than the feeling of not being identified with a larger group.
— Erich Fromm
Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.
— Erich Fromm
The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.
— Erich Fromm
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
— Erich Fromm
I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.
— Erich Fromm
Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.
— Erich Fromm
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
— Erich Fromm
Rationalizing is not a tool for penetration of reality but a post-factum attempt to harmonize one's own wishes with existing reality.
— Erich Fromm
There is undoubtedly a difference between people who manipulate other people and people who create things.
— Erich Fromm
The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he is given to transcend himself, is to create or destroy, to love or to hate.
— Erich Fromm
One can hardly overestimate people's need to talk about themselves and to be listened to.
— Erich Fromm
The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own
— Erich Fromm
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
— Erich Fromm
If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too.
— Erich Fromm
There is only one reality: the act of feeling ourselves in the process of making choices.
— Erich Fromm
God explains to Jonah that the essence of love is to "labor" for something and "to make something grow,
— Erich Fromm
It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry.
— Erich Fromm
If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself, too; if he can love only others, he cannot love at all.
— Erich Fromm
I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me. If
— Erich Fromm
The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.
— Erich Fromm
Women are equal because they are not different any more.
— Erich Fromm
Psychologist Erich Fromm coined the term ["biophilia"] in 1964 as a way of describing the innate attraction to processes of life and growth.
— Adam Leith Gollner
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
[W]hat a person considers the minimal necessities depends as much on his character as it depends on his actual possessions.
— Erich Fromm
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.
— Erich Fromm
People don't come to therapy for exclamation; they come for experience.
— Frieda Fromm-Reichmann
In the view of the wise, Heaven is man and Earth woman: Earth fosters what Heaven lets fall.
— Erich Fromm
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
— Erich Fromm
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 basic for any approach to self-transformation is an ever-increasing awareness of reality and the shedding of illusions.
— Erich Fromm
Reality imposes its law on man, laws that he can only escape in dreams or in states of trance - or in insanity.
— Erich Fromm
The value judgments we make determine our actions, and upon their validity rests our mental health and happiness.
— Erich Fromm
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
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
— Erich Fromm
Force is camouflaged by consents; the consent is brought about the methods of mass suggestion.
— Erich Fromm
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.
— Erich Fromm
Love is a power which produces love.
— Erich Fromm
The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.
— Erich Fromm
The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.
— Erich Fromm
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
— Erich Fromm
While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.
— Erich Fromm