Erich Fromm Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Lying, Power

  "The Art of Loving".

• In the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

  Erich Fromm

  Lying, Expression, Generosity

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.29, Open Road Media

• The only way of full knowledge lies in the act of love; this act transcends thought, it transcends words. It is the daring plunge into the experience of union. To love somebody is not just a strong feeling-it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Strong, Lying

• Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

  Erich Fromm

  Inspirational, Motivational, Lying

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.29, 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 the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They have what I would call a state capitalism.

  Erich Fromm

  Lying, Socialism, States

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

• The third error leading to the assumption that there is nothing to be learned about love lies in the confusion between the initial experience of ‘falling’ in love, and the permanent state of being in love, or as we might better say, of ‘standing’ in love.

  Erich Fromm

  Falling In Love, Lying, Being In Love

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.4, A&C Black

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