Erich Fromm Quotes About Judging

Quotes about: Judging

• Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Romantic, Judging

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.61, Open Road Media

• 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

• Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Judging, Understanding

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.243, Open Road Media

• Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. One can judge objectively to what extent a person has succeeded in his task, to what degree he has realized his potentialities. If he has failed in his task, one can recognize this failure and judge it for what it is - a moral failure.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Giving, Judging

  'Man for Himself' (1947) ch. 4

• We have, in the same way, relegated our own responsibility in what happens to our country to the specialists, who are supposed to take care of it, and the individual citizen does not feel that he can judge, and even that he should judge, and take any responsibility. I think there are quite a number of recent developments which show that.

  Erich Fromm

  Country, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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