60 Quotations by Erich Fromm
- 21. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is of little love.
- 22. Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his f ...
- 23. Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can ...
- 24. Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
- 25. Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the sep ...
- 26. Man absolutely cannot live by himself.
- 27. Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
- 28. Man is the only animal that can be bored.
- 29. Man may be defined as the animal that can say "I," that can be aware of himself as a separate entity ...
- 30. Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
- 31. Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most impo ...
- 32. Man's main task is to give birth to himself.
- 33. Men are born equal but they are also born different.
- 34. Modern man thinks he loses something -- time -- when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not ...
- 35. Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
- 36. Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. "Patriotism" is its cult. It sh ...
- 37. Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
- 38. One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's ...
- 39. Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
- 40. Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and al ...
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