Erich Fromm Quotes & Quotations

Erich Fromm Quotes

» 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.

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

» Authority is not a quality one person ''has,'' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

» 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.

» Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

» Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

» Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

» To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

» Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

» 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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