Erich Fromm Quotes

Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

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Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled to concentrate to accept conflict and tension to be born everyday to feel a sense of self.

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The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

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Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

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A vast sector of modern advertising... does not appeal to reason but to emotion like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress its objects emotionally and then make them submit intellectually.

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As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found.

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

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Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life.

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Happiness is a mans greatest achievement it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

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Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

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

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Socialism is the abolition of human self-alienation, the return of man as a real human being.

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

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Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

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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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In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.

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By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which the person experiences himself as an alien. He has become, one might say, estranged from himself. He does not experience himself as the center of his world, as the creator of his own acts, but his acts and their consequences have become his masters, whom he obeys, or whom he may even worship. The alienated person is out of touch with himself as he is out of touch with any other person. He, like the others, is experienced as things are experienced with the senses and with common sense, but at the same time without being related to oneself and to the world outside positively.

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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.

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That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.

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That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life he transcends himself as a creature.

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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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Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.

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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age

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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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The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into an individual one potentially is.

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