Erich Fromm Short Quotes

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Equality today means 'sameness', rather than 'oneness'.

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Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

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Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation.

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The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

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Mother is the home we come from.
She is nature, soil, ocean.

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Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.

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To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.

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FORTITUDE IS THE CAPACITY TO SAY NO WHEN THE WORLD WANTS TO HEAR 'YES'

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Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.

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Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.

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I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.

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In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

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Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

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Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.

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The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

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What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.

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Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.

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One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

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Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

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I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself.

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If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.

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The history of thought is the history of an ever-increasing approximation to the truth.

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The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.

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Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.

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The capacity to be puzzled is indeed the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

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Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. "Patriotism" is its cult.

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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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The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own

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There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

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