Erich Fromm Quotes - Page 3

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• You have to stop in order to change direction.

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  Order

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• We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

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  Civilization, Way, Becoming

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.36, Lantern Books

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• Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be. Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before.

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  Eye, Journey, Long

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• Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.

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  Sides, Authority, Irrational

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

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  Life, Power, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.52, Open Road Media

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• Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

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  Life, Animal, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.40, Routledge

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• As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

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  Ladders, Injustice, Mask

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• A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet 'for sale', who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society.

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  Lonely, Suffering Of Others, Feelings

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Being”, p.90, Open Road Media

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• FORTITUDE IS THE CAPACITY TO SAY NO WHEN THE WORLD WANTS TO HEAR 'YES'

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  World, Want, Fortitude

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.27, Lantern Books

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• Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without his being aware of it? Yet by a complicated process of indoctrination, rewards, punishments, and fitting ideology, it solves this task by and large so well that most people believe they are following their own will and are unaware that their will itself is conditioned and manipulated.

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  Believe, Simple, Punishment

  Erich Fromm (2013). “To Have Or To Be?”, p.67, A&C Black

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• There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

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  Motivational, Freedom, Real

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• There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness than to think, feel, and say what is ours.

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  Happiness, Thinking, Joy

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• The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.

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  Children, Fighting, Neurosis

  Erich Fromm (1947). “Man for Himself”

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• Integrity simply means not violating one's own identity.

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  Integrity, Mean, Identity

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• Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

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  Love, Life, Romantic

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.

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  Giving, Birth, Individual

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.26, Routledge

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• The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

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  Mom, Mother, Children

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• There is undoubtedly a difference between people who manipulate other people and people who create things.

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  Differences, People, Manipulate

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.183, Open Road Media

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• Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

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  Love, Romantic, Faith

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.141, Open Road Media

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• Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

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  Men, Want, Illusion

  Erich Fromm (1950). “The Fear of Freedom”

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• Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization.

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  Civilization, Doubt, May

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• The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own

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  Mean, Able, Our Thoughts

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.244, Open Road Media

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• Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you can potentially be.

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  Life, Independent, Tasks

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• To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.

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  Knowing Who You Are, Birth, Born

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

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  Life, Creativity, Mean

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