Erich Fromm Erich Seligmann Fromm was an internationally renowned social psychologist, psychoanalyst, and humanistic philosopher. He was associated with what became known as the Frankfurt School of critical theory.Erich Fromm started his studies in 1918 at the more..more..
“ Erich Fromm: Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it. #Time and Time Management#Time and Time Management
“ Erich Fromm: If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I? #Possessions#Possessions
“ Erich Fromm: Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. #Faith#Faith
“ Erich Fromm:Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies #Happiness#Happiness
“ Erich Fromm: Man may be defined as the animal that can say I, that can be aware of himself as a separate entity. #Identity#Identity
“ Erich Fromm: The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become Golems, they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life. #The future#The future
“ Erich Fromm: Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. #Charity#Charity
“ Erich Fromm:Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." #Maturity#Maturity
“ Erich Fromm: The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. #Security#Security
“ Erich Fromm:Among most Christians the Old Testament is little read in comparison to the New Testament. Furthermore, much of what is read is often distorted by prejudice. Frequently the Old Testament is believed to express exclusively the principles of justice and revenge, in contrast to the New Testament, which represents those of love and mercy; even the sentence, "Love your neighbor as yourself,” is thought by many to derive from the New, not the Old Testament. Or the Old Testament is believed to have been written exclusively in the spirit of narrow nationalism and to contain nothing of supranational universalism so characteristic of the New Testament. #Books - Reading#Books - Reading
“ Erich Fromm: We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. #Materialism#Materialism
“ Erich Fromm:All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual. #Politicians and Politics#Politicians and Politics
“ Erich Fromm:To speak of love is not "preaching," for the simple reason that it means to speak of the ultimate and real need of every human being. That this need has been obscured does not mean it does not exist. To analyze the nature of love is to discover its general absence today and to criticize the social conditions which are responsible for this absence. To have faith in the possibility of love as a social and not only exceptional-individual phenomenon, is a rational faith based on the insight into the very nature of man. #Love#Love
“ Erich Fromm: In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. #Present#Present
“ Erich Fromm: Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you. #Love#Love
“ Erich Fromm:In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. #Love#Love
“ Erich Fromm: 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. #Love#Love
“ Erich Fromm:In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only tolerate, she must wish and support the child’s separation. #Mothers#Mothers
“ Erich Fromm: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. #Beauty#Beauty
“ Erich Fromm:The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge. #Fallibility#Fallibility
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