Quotes Erich Fromm

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker ...

Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense th...

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ours...

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties....

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an en...

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent t...

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?...

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature ...

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and ye...

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. ...

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects a...

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization ...

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two p...

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem...

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, ...

Man always dies before he is fully born....

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a probl...

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture....

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to beco...

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness mea...

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not...

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much....

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being s...

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faith...

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference o...