Erich Fromm Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.

  Erich Fromm

  Ideas, Numbers, Culture

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.12, Open Road Media

• The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation; in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society - and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic.

  Erich Fromm

  Home, Average, Sick

• If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.

  Erich Fromm

  Fear, Thinking, Religion

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.203, Open Road Media

• The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.

  Erich Fromm

  Home, Sick, Culture

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.589, Open Road Media

• Men are born equal but they are also born different.

  Erich Fromm

  Respect, Equality, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.266, Open Road Media

• The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Challenges, Humanity

  Erich Fromm (2013). “May Man Prevail?: An Inquiry into the Facts and Fictions of Foreign Policy”, Open Road Media

• What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

  Erich Fromm

  Sex, Mean, People

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.2, A&C Black

• A relatively primitive village in which there are still real feasts, common artistic shared expressions, and no literacy at all is more advanced culturally and more healthy mentally than our educated, newspaper-reading radio-listening culture.

  Erich Fromm

  Real, Reading, Expression

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.392, Open Road Media

• Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Weakness, Culture

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.96, Open Road Media

• The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects.

  Erich Fromm

  Intellectual, Negative, Doe

  Source: www.scribd.com

• Finally one arrives at this: the state of sleep has an ambiguous function; in sleep, the lack of contact with the culture brings out the worst and also the best in us.

  Erich Fromm

  Sleep, Culture, States

  Source: www.scribd.com

• What is for me socialism is exactly the opposite of a bureaucratically-managed culture.

  Erich Fromm

  Opposites, Culture, Socialism

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

• 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

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