I leave you the best Erich Fromm quotes, philosopher and psychoanalyst who criticized Western society through his large number of publications. Among his most popular books are The art of loving, The fear of freedom Y To have or to be?
Due to his Jewish origins, Fromm was forced to emigrate to the American continent. His texts deal extensively with love, hatred, nationalism, nature and culture, among others..
He is considered one of the founders of the American psychoanalytic culturalist school, which focuses on solving the neurosis of the modern human being through the imposition of humanism over consumerism and economic values.
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-There is only one meaning in life: the act of living in oneself.
-Most people die before they are born. Creativity means being born before dying.
-Only the person who has faith in himself is capable of having faith in others.
-The meaning of life consists only in the very act of living.
-Only those who do not want more than they have are prosperous.
-It is not rich who has a lot, but who gives a lot.
-Man is the only animal for whom his very existence is a problem that he must solve..
-The human being always dies before being fully born.
-The biological weakness of being is the condition of human culture.
-Giving is the ultimate expression of strength. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power.
-The psychic task that a person can and should set for himself is not to feel safe, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
-The ability to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is humility.
-Modern man thinks that he loses something, time, when he does not do things quickly. However, he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill him.
-Dying is tinged with poignant bitterness, but the thought of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
-Nationalism is our form of incest, it is our idolatry, it is our madness. The patriotism is his sect.
-Fair means not resorting to fraud and deception in exchange for comforts and services or in exchange for feelings.
-Both dreams and myths represent important communications from ourselves to ourselves..
-The search for narcissistic satisfaction derives from the need to compensate for material and cultural poverty.
-One cannot be fully sensitive to the world without being saddened often.
-That millions of people share the same forms of mental illness does not imply that these people are sane.
-Life has no meaning, except the very meaning that each one gives to his own life by revealing all his powers..
-The history of humanity began with an act of disobedience and it is very likely that it ends with an act of obedience..
-If I am what I have and if I lose what I have, then who am I??
-We live in a world of things and our only relationship with them is that we know how to manipulate or consume them.
-In the 19th century the problem was that God had died. In the twentieth century the problem is that the human being has died.
-Sanity is simply what is found in the frame of reference of conventional thinking.
-Greed is a bottomless pit that drains the person in an eternal effort to satisfy the need without even achieving satisfaction..
-There is nothing inhuman, evil or irrational that does not produce some kind of comfort if done in a group.
-What most people understand in our culture by being loved is basically a mixture of popularity and sexual attractiveness..
-The search for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the only condition that encourages human beings to reveal their powers.
-We are what we do.
-Love is the union with someone or something outside of oneself, under the condition of preserving one's individualism and integrity..
-The danger of the past was that humans would become slaves. The danger of the future is that those humans could turn into robots.
-The revolutionary and critical thinker is always somehow outside of society and, at the same time, is part of it.
-Longing means being prepared at all times for what has not yet been born and at the same time not despairing if there is no birth in our life.
-Creativity requires the courage to release certainties.
-Greed is a bottomless pit that drains a person in a never-ending effort to satisfy need without ever reaching satisfaction..
-The ability to bewildered is the premise of all creation, whether in art or science.
-Health is just that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thinking.
-As we move up the social ladder, wickedness wears a thicker mask.
-Man always dies before he is fully born.
-The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful is a criminal.
-The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the main danger to humanity, not the devil or the devil.
-What does one person give to another? He gives himself the most precious thing he has, gives him his life.
-Critical and radical thinking will only bear fruit when it is mixed with the most precious quality that man possesses: the love of life..
-Perhaps there is no phenomenon that contains a destructive feeling greater than moral outrage, which leads to envy or hatred acting disguised as virtue.
-If I perceive in another person mainly the surface, I perceive mainly the differences, that which separates us. If I enter inside, I perceive their identity, our brotherhood relationship.
-The more the urge toward life is thwarted, the stronger the urge toward destruction; the more life is realized, the less is the force of destructiveness. Destructiveness is the result of life not lived.
-If other people don't understand our behavior, so what? Their request that we only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate our behavior..
-Society would have to be organized in such a way that the social and loving nature of the human being was not separated from its social existence, but joined together.
-The human being has two basic orientations: to have and to be. Having implies acquiring and owning things, even people. Being focuses on experience: exchanging, engaging, sharing with other people.
-Not enough attention is paid to the word boredom. We talk about many horrible things that happen to people, but we do not usually talk about one of the worst: feeling bored, either alone or, worse, in company..
-Authority is not a quality that a person has, in the sense of having physical properties or qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relationship in which one person looks to another with superiority.
-In the same way that mass production requires the standardization of goods, the social process requires the standardization of the human being, and this standardization is called equality.
-The main task of the human being in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he really is. The most important product of your effort is your own personality..
-It is paradoxical in love that two beings become one, and at the same time remain two.
-Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you".
-Selfish people are incapable of loving others, and they are not capable of loving themselves..
-Paradoxically, being able to be alone is the condition for being able to love.
-In love, the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet two remain.
-Love does not come naturally, but requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the defeat of narcissism. It's not a feeling, it's a practice.
-In erotic love, two people who were separated become one. In maternal love, two people who were one part.
-There is hardly any activity or project that starts with such high hopes and expectations, yet fails so often, like love..
-There is no word in the language that has been prostituted more than the word love.
-The mature answer to the problem of existence is love.
-Love is normally a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can hope for, taking into account their value in the market of personalities..
-If one is not productive in other ways, one is not productive in love either..
-If a person loves only one person and is indifferent to all the others, then his love is not love, but symbolic attachment or extended egotism..
-Is love an art? So it takes knowledge and effort.
-Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
-Love is an energy that produces love.
-Mother's love is peace. It doesn't need to be acquired, it doesn't need to be earned.
-To love means to commit without guarantee, to surrender completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the person we love..
-Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were just a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise of loving each other forever..
-The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the part of the mother, but precisely this love should help the child to distance himself from the mother and to achieve total independence..
-Why does society feel responsible only for the education of children and not for the education of adults of any age?
-Education is about helping the child to bring their skills to life.
-You do not progress by improving what has already been done, but by striving to achieve what remains to be done.
-The opposite of education is manipulation.
-The only way to enhance a child's abilities and faith is by putting the desirable ahead of it and suppressing the undesirable..
-Freedom does not mean license.
-There can be no freedom without the freedom to fail.
-The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity..
-Freedom is not a constant attribute that we have or do not have. In fact, there is no freedom except as a word and an abstract concept. There is only one reality: the act of freeing ourselves in the process of making choices.
-The fundamental alternative for the human being is the choice between life and death, between creativity and destructive violence, between reality and illusions, between objectivity and intolerance, between brotherhood and independence, and domination and submission..
-Good and evil do not exist if there is no freedom to disobey.
-Envy, jealousy, ambition, all kinds of greed, are passions: love is an action, the practice of human power, which can only be realized in freedom and never as a result of a compulsion..
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