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Erich Fromm

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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.


— Erich Fromm


#air #breathing #bright #effort #fresh

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.


— Erich Fromm


#effort #endless #ever #exhausts #greed

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


— Erich Fromm


#age #children #every #feel #only

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


— Erich Fromm


#feel #insecurity #must #ourselves #secure

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.


— Erich Fromm


#existence #his #man #only #own

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?


— Erich Fromm


#i #i am #lose #then #who

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


— Erich Fromm


#became #become #danger #future #man

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.


— Erich Fromm


#birth #effort #give #himself #his

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.


— Erich Fromm


#acquired #deserved #love #love is #mother

The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.


— Erich Fromm


#feel #himself #insecurity #must #person






About Erich Fromm






Did you know about Erich Fromm?

). He observed that embracing our freedom of will was healthy whereas escaping freedom through the use of escape mechanisms was the root of psychological conflicts. Drawing from his knowledge of the Torah Fromm pointed to the story of Jonah who did not wish to save the residents of Nineveh from the consequences of their sin as demonstrative of his belief that the qualities of care and responsibility are generally absent from most human relationships.

Erich SeligmannFromm (March 23 1900 – March 18 1980) was a German social psychologist psychoanalyst sociologist humanistic philosopher and democratic socialist.

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