Erich Fromm Quotes About Growth

Quotes about: Growth

• Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.

  Erich Fromm

  Freedom, Growth, Fundamentals

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.290, Open Road Media

• I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone or something outside of oneself, union that allows one to put oneself into relationship with others, to feel one with others, without limiting the sense of integrity and independence. Love is a productive orientation for which it is essential that there be present at the same time: concern, responsibility, and respect for and knowledge of the object of the union.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Integrity, Believe

  Erich Fromm (1997). “On Being Human”, p.101, A&C Black

• Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.

  Erich Fromm

  Children, Opposites, Growth

• Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.

  Erich Fromm

  Love Is, Growth, Art Of Loving

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.34, Open Road Media

• The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.

  Erich Fromm

  Happiness, Capacity To Love, Growth

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

  Erich Fromm

  History, Growth, Connections

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.134, Routledge

• We have faith in the potentialities of others, of ourselves, and of mankind because, and only to the degree to which, we have experienced the growth of our own potentialities, the reality of growth in ourselves, the strength of our own power of reason and love.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Reality, Growth

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.113, A&C Black

• All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.

  Erich Fromm

  Growth, Desire, Purpose

  Erich Fromm (1941). “Escape from Freedom”, Henry Holt & Company

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