Erich Fromm Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Family, Happiness

  Erich Fromm (2012). “The Sane Society”, p.337, Routledge

• To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern – and to take the jump and to stake everything on these values.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Pain, Disappointment

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.139, Open Road Media

• There is no word in our language which has been so much misused and prostituted as the word love. It has been preached by those who were ready to condone every cruelty if it served their purpose; it has been used as a disguise under which to force people into sacrificing their own happiness, into submitting their whole self to those who profited from this surrender. [...] It has been made so empty that for many people love may mean no more than that two people have lived together for twenty years just without fighting more often than once a week.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Mean, Sacrifice

  Erich Fromm (1997). “Love, Sexuality, and Matriarchy: About Gender”, Fromm International

• Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. .... For the man an attractive girl - and for the woman an attractive man - are the prizes they are after. 'attractive' usually means a nice package of qualities which are popular and sought after on the personality market. What specifically makes a person attractive depends on the fashion of the time, physically as well as mentally. ... Two persons thus fall in love when they feel they have found the best object available on the market, considering the limitations of their own exchange values.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Girl, Fashion

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.3, A&C Black

• There is a creative pleasure, which, for instance, the artisan in the Middle Ages, or in a country like Mexico, still today has - namely the pleasure of creating something. You find quite a few skilled workers who still have that pleasure: maybe in a steel mill; maybe a worker who works with a complicated machine - he has a sense that he is creating something.

  Erich Fromm

  Country, Creating, Creative

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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