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
want world fortitude
FORTITUDE IS THE CAPACITY TO SAY NO WHEN THE WORLD WANTS TO HEAR 'YES'
world art-of-loving
I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself.
men unity world
The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural and human world outside.
lasts world desperate
The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it
men progress world
Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation.
history growth world
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
love men world
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.
frame reference sanity within
Sanity - that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought
begin book half imagine incomplete lack love today understand volumes
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
eyes journey knew leave lived mind soul spirit start strange thoughts
Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.
acted contains envy feeling guise hate perhaps permits phenomenon virtue
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as "moral indignation," which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue
acted contains envy feeling guise hate perhaps permits phenomenon virtue
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as ""moral indignation,"" which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue
except gives life man meaning unfolding
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.
except gives life man meaning unfolding
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.