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
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.
wall integrity love-is
Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity.
differences people manipulate
There is undoubtedly a difference between people who manipulate other people and people who create things.
loneliness being-alone needs
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.
expression giving charity
Giving is the highest expression of potency.
love-is two secret-love
True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta match.
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.
integrity mean identity
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.
sympathy death wise
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
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
worry anxiety meaning-of-life
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
happiness capacity-to-love growth
The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.
integrity mean identity
Integrity simply means not violating one's own identity.
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?