Erich Fromm Quotes About Human Nature

Quotes about: Human Nature

• The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

  Erich Fromm

  Beauty, Beautiful, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.23, Open Road Media

• The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human nature, and the human necessities as they appear as drives, needs, passions, etc., in any given historical period.

  Erich Fromm

  Lying, Passion, Confusion

  "Human Nature and Social Theory". Letter by Erich Fromm to Vladimir Dobrenkov, March 10, 1969.

• If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence, then any society which excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Running, Love Is

  "The Art of Loving". Book by Erich Fromm, 1956.

• Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Saint, Human Nature

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.29, Open Road Media

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