Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm
Erich Seligmann Frommwas a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth23 March 1900
CountryUnited States of America
brother liberty want
If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.
love smile two
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
evil giving groups
There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.
love good-morning dream
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.
love-is growth art-of-loving
Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.
obedience unlikely humans
Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience
life art men
But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.
believe men unity
I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it.
art creation capacity
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
giving birth individual
The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.
spiritual jesus revenge
Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to the teachings of the great spiritual leaders of the human race, those of Buddha, the prophets, Socrates, Jesus, Mohammed-he has transformed these teachings into a jungle of superstition and idol-worship. How can mankind save itself from destroying itself by this discrepancy between intellectual-technical overmaturity and emotional backwardness?
encouragement people vision
When people can see a vision and simultaneously recognize what can be done step by step in a concrete way to achieve it, they will begin to feel encouragement and enthusiasm instead of fright.
happiness capacity-to-love growth
The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.
mean oneness today
Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’.