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- “Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever.
- “A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society.
- “Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.”
- “If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being "asocial" or "irrational" in their eyes, so be it.
- The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. Erich Fromm. Business, Inner Peace, Insecurity.
- Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.
- The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
- Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. Erich Fromm. Effort, Greed, Needs.
Find inspirational and thought-provoking quotes by Erich Fromm, a renowned American psychologist and social critic. Explore his insights on love, freedom, human nature, and more.
- Erich Fromm
- 1956
- “Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever.
- “Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.”
- “Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.” ― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving.
- “The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one.
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The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or political facts provide the real and...
Fromm revives all the time-honored values of idealistic ethics as if nobody had ever demonstrated their conformist and repressive features. He speaks of the productive realization of the personalit...
Erich Fromm Archive at the Marxists.org Internet ArchiveErich Fromm was a renowned psychologist and social critic who explored topics such as love, personality, and society. Browse his 20 best quotes on topics such as love, life, reason, and more.
Feb 23, 2021 · "The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have." - Erich Fromm. 3. "If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?" - Erich Fromm. 4. "There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail." - Erich Fromm. 5. "The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
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