Quotes about Man by Erich Fromm

Erich Fromm Psychologist, psychoanalyst and humanistic philosopher

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

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In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

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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.

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Man always dies before he is fully born.

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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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Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

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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.

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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.

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind not the fiend or the sadist.

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

Quote by Erich Fromm about man