Erich Fromm
Quotations
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“Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” -Erich Fromm
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“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?” -Erich Fromm
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“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.” -Erich Fromm
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“The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.” -Erich Fromm
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“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.” -Erich Fromm
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“The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind – not the fiend or the sadist.” -Erich Fromm
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“There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.” -Erich Fromm
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“The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.” -Erich Fromm
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“Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” -Erich Fromm
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“The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.” -Erich Fromm
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“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.” -Erich Fromm
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“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.” -Erich Fromm
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“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.” -Erich Fromm
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“Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.” -Erich Fromm
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“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.” -Erich Fromm
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“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.” -Erich Fromm
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“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.” -Erich Fromm
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“Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.” -Erich Fromm
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“In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.” -Erich Fromm
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“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.” -Erich Fromm
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“There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.” -Erich Fromm
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“Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.” -Erich Fromm
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“Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.” -Erich Fromm
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“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?” -Erich Fromm
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“Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.” -Erich Fromm
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“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” -Erich Fromm
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“The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.” -Erich Fromm
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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? – Erich Fromm
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