60 Quotations by Erich Fromm
- 41. Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which i ...

- 42. Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew ...

- 43. That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the mir ...

- 44. The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become r ...

- 45. The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest k ...

- 46. The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically ...

- 47. The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense l ...

- 48. The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sa ...

- 49. The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; th ...

- 50. The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able t ...

- 51. The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel ma ...

- 52. The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

- 53. The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

- 54. There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.

- 55. There is only one meaning of life, the act of living itself.

- 56. To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

- 57. We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or ...

- 58. What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular ...

- 59. while every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achiev ...

- 60. Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright mornin ...

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