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
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.
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.
knowing-who-you-are birth born
To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.
mother children two
In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only tolerate, she must wish and support the child's separation.
love family happiness
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
expression giving charity
Giving is the highest expression of potency.
eye journey long
Let your mind start a journey through 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.
love-is men giving
Love is the only way of knowledge, which in the act of union answers my quest. In the act of loving, of giving myself, in the act of penetrating the other person, I find myself, I discover myself, I discover us both, I discover man.
selfish love-you greed
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
self-esteem criminal-mind ifs
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
love-is two secret-love
True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta match.
destiny order years
It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.