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
life tragedy born
The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.
happiness men personality
Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.
dream communication important
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.
change
You have to stop to change direction.
marriage two feet
If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a life saver, but the relationship is not one of love.
learning roots
The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present.
education ignorance people
Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought to know everything, and hence that it is a sign of ignorance to be surprised or puzzled by anything.
political intellectual progress
Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the inner security, happiness, reason and the capacity for love in the individual; it tends to turn him into an automaton who pays for his human failure with increasing mental sickness, and with despair hidden under a frantic drive for work and so called pleasure.
life believe men
I believe that one can and must hope for a sane society that furthers man's capacity to love his fellow men, to work and create, to develop his reason and his objectivity of a sense of himself that is based on the experience of his productive energy. I believe that one can and must hope for the collective regaining of a mental health that is characterized by the capacity to love and to create...
responsibility love-is care
Love is the productive form of relatedness to others and to oneself. It implies responsibility, care, respect. If it isn't productive and respectful, it isn't love, but only fear masquerading as love.
way revolutionary certain
The revolutionary and critical thinker is in a certain way always outside of his society while of course he is at the same time also in it.
mean self schizoid
In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.
boredom evil painful
Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of life, there are few which are as painful as boredom, and consequently every attempt is made to avoid it.
personality needs want
If you do not smile, you are judged lacking in a 'pleasing personality' - and you need to have a pleasing personality if you want to sell your services, whether as a waitress, a salesman, or a physician.