Erich Fromm Quotes

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
Erich Fromm

Die, Before, Means

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

Person, Him, Sense

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Erich Fromm

Politics, Successful, Criminal

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

Envy, Feeling, Moral

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
Erich Fromm

Cannot, Often, Deeply

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm

Meaning, Search, Condition

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

Love, Integrity, Self

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
Erich Fromm

Sex, Mean, Between

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
Erich Fromm

Power, Danger, Mankind

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

Love, Started, Hopes

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
Erich Fromm

Equality, Social, Process

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
Erich Fromm

Love, Nothing, Two

Man always dies before he is fully born.
Erich Fromm

Death, Before, Born

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

Hope, Moment, Become

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

Live, Connection, Manipulate

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

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.
Erich Fromm

Truly, Affluent

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Erich Fromm

Freedom, Real, Fail

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
Erich Fromm

Art, Science, Creation

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
Erich Fromm

Love, Human, Reason

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.
Erich Fromm

Thought, Within, Sanity

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm

Power, Life, Meaning

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

Human, Culture, Weakness

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: March 23, 1900

Died: March 18, 1980

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