Erich Fromm Quotes

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Erich Fromm

Man always dies before he is fully born.

Erich Fromm

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.

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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.

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Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

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In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

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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.

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Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

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

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

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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

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

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