Erich Fromm
German - American philosopher and psychologist
Lived from: 1900 - 1980
Category: Psychologists | Philosophers Country: 
Germany
Born: 23 march 1900 Died: 18 march 1980
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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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Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
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Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
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The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.
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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.
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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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The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
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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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There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
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We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.
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What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
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