The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
Quote by Erich Fromm about opinion, danger, man, past, future
Quotes by Erich Fromm
34 quotes by Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm - psychologist, psychoanalyst and humanistic philosopher
Was born on 23 mar 1900.
Died on 18 mar 1980, at 79 years old.
Died on 18 mar 1980, at 79 years old.
Origin country: Germany
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Quote by Erich Fromm about creation, creativity, courage
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Quote by Erich Fromm about love, people
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Quote by Erich Fromm about love
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
Quote by Erich Fromm about god, man
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
Quote by Erich Fromm about love, objects, reason, human imperfections, world, man
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.
Quote by Erich Fromm about love, personality, value, stores, nothing, people
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Quote by Erich Fromm about love, existence, human imperfections
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
Quote by Erich Fromm about love, integrity, union, self-control
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Quote by Erich Fromm about man, existence
Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
Quote by Erich Fromm about man, weakness, culture, human imperfections
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Quote by Erich Fromm about man, personality, life
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
Quote by Erich Fromm about creativity, death, people
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Quote by Erich Fromm about mother, need, peace, love
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
Quote by Erich Fromm about creation, science, art, magic
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.
Quote by Erich Fromm about beauty, man, nature, human imperfections
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.
Quote by Erich Fromm about advice, mother, children, help, love, common sense, sense
