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
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.
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.
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.
dream soul looks
A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.