23 Famous Quotes by Erich Fromm
3/23/1900 - 3/18/1980
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About Erich Fromm
Erich Seligmann Fromm was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was associated with what became known as the Frankfurt School of critical theory.
Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.
Journey
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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?
Adulthood
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To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness
Grief
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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.
Mothers
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The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Uncertainty
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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?
Education
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We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
Dreams
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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?
Education
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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.
Love
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There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
Love
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To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
Hope
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There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
Hope
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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.
Identity
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Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Life
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