Erich Fromm Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• 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

• Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Life, Two

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.166, Open Road Media

• The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.

  Erich Fromm

  Important, Development, Individual

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx and Freud”, p.188, Open Road Media

• If one admits that the influence of the outside world is essentially beneficial, the lack of such influence during sleep would tend to diminish the value of our dream activity so as to render it inferior to the mental activity that takes place when we are awake, when we are exposed to these beneficial influences of surrounding reality. But how can one say that the influence of reality is exclusively beneficial. Could it not also be damaging, and could its absence not give access to qualities superior to those that we have when awake?

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Sleep, Reality

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• We must make a decision of values.

  Erich Fromm

  Decision, Values

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• If our supreme value is the development of the Western tradition - of a man for whom the highest thing in life is man, for whom love for man, respect for man, and the dignity of man, are supreme values - then we cannot ask the question that says, "if it is better for our survival, might we drop these values?"

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Things In Life, Survival

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• We talk about equality, about happiness, about freedom - and about the spiritual values of religion, and about God - and in our daily life, we act on principles which are different, and partly contradictory.

  Erich Fromm

  Spiritual, Principles, Different

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• 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

• Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for deep emotional experiences, for the joy and sadness that accompany them.

  Erich Fromm

  Religious, Sadness, Men

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