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 life romantic
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
powerful book ideas
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book.
business inner-peace insecurity
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
world art-of-loving
I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself.
life integrity believe
I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone or something outside of oneself, union that allows one to put oneself into relationship with others, to feel one with others, without limiting the sense of integrity and independence. Love is a productive orientation for which it is essential that there be present at the same time: concern, responsibility, and respect for and knowledge of the object of the union.
elude-us goal effort
We may know ourselves, and yet even with all the efforts we make, we do not know ourselves. We know our fellowman, and yet we do not know him, because we are not a thing, and our fellowman is not a thing. The further we reach into the depths of our being, on someone else's being, the more the goal of knowledge eludes us.
religious expression oneness
In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence, God’s justice, God’s love. The love of God is essentially a thought experience. In the Eastern religions and in mysticism, the love of God is an intense feeling experience of oneness, inseparably linked with the expression of this love in every act of living.
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.
block power men
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
knowing-who-you-are birth born
To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.
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.
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.
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.