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
hero passion men
The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life.
sympathy death wise
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
worry anxiety meaning-of-life
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
grief grieving mourning
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness
death tragedy dies
It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.
dream judgment awake
We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.
children opposites growth
Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.
dream soul looks
A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.
real reading expression
A relatively primitive village in which there are still real feasts, common artistic shared expressions, and no literacy at all is more advanced culturally and more healthy mentally than our educated, newspaper-reading radio-listening culture.
mom mother love-is
Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.
hope mean birth
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.
ladders injustice mask
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
thinking joy ashamed
There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness than to think, feel, and say what is ours.
mom mother children
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.