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
dream sleep understanding
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
faith confidence able
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
responsibility elements care
Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.
sadness compassion curiosity
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
school responsibility knowing
To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.
animal intelligent men
Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.
affluence want affluent
The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.
christian mean reflection
If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one's individual life from its limitations and instability to the plane of indestructability; if one's name is known to one's contemporaries and if one can hope that it will last for centuries, then one's life has meaning and significance by this very reflection of it in the judgments of others.
motivational freedom real
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
errors people doe
The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
ability-to-love ability art-of-loving
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
history growth world
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
time learning knowledge
Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.
freedom men liberty
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason.