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
abolition human return socialism
Socialism is the abolition of human self-alienation, the return of man as a real human being.
immature love
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you'
except gives life man meaning unfolding
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
except gives life man meaning unfolding
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.
capacity-to-love people problem
Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how to be loved, how to be lovable.
love life romantic
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
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.
knowing-who-you-are birth born
To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.
ladders injustice mask
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
bores-you boredom would-be
I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.
spheres ifs productive
If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.
love-life men quality
Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life
ability-to-love ability art-of-loving
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
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.