We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. Erich Fromm Read Quote
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. Erich Fromm Read Quote
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one’s own self. Erich Fromm Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. Erich Fromm Read Quote
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. Erich Fromm Read Quote
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. Erich Fromm Read Quote
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies. Erich Fromm Read Quote
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. Erich Fromm Read Quote
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. Erich Fromm Read Quote
