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
best-love someone-you-love moments
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
effort greed needs
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
letting-go spiritual courage
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
ideas numbers culture
Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.
century dead god man problem twentieth
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead
himself psychic task tolerate
The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
follows immature love loved mature
Infantile love follows the principle: ""I love because I am loved."" Mature love follows the principle: ""I am loved because I love."" Immature love says: ""I love you because I need you."" Mature love says: ""I need you because I love you.
immature love
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you'
respect unique individuality
Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.
happiness capacity-to-love growth
The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.
character successful battle
Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive solution.
order
You have to stop in order to change direction.
optimism despair pessimism
Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.
caring men challenges
Whether...a change from the supremacy of natural science to a new social science will take place...depends on one factor: how many brilliant, learned, disciplined, and caring men and women are attracted by the new challenge....