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Erich Fromm

Erich Fromm

American Psychologist

Born: Mar 23, 1900

Died: Mar 18, 1980

Become Life Love Love Is Man World

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Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. Erich Fromm

Selfish Others Either Loving Capable Persons Themselves Incapable

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

Brainy Lose Am Then Who

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

People Before Born Most Die Dies Means Fully Creativeness

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

Life Man Personality Important Become Own Birth Give Potentially Main He Most Himself His Effort Task The Most Important Product

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

Future Men Become Past Society Danger Became Robots May Slaves

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

Love Become Paradox Remain Occurs Beings Two

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

Insecurity Ourselves Secure Must Able Feel Task Tolerate Set

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. Erich Fromm

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. Erich Fromm

Rich Gives He Much Who

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. Erich Fromm

Hate Envy Feeling Virtue Guise Out Destructive Moral Indignation Contains Perhaps Permits Which Much Acted Phenomenon

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

Faith Faithful Others Able Only Himself Person Who

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

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

Bitter Unbearable Having Idea Without Die Lived

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

World Responsive Saddened Without Very Often Being Cannot Deeply

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. Erich Fromm

God Man Problem Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Dead Century Twentieth Twentieth Century

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself. Erich Fromm

Life Meaning Of Life Living Only Itself Meaning Meaning Of Act

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. Erich Fromm

Dreams Strange Logical Nothing Our Minds Our Dreams Dream Purposeful Understand Least Goes Act Awake Comparison Sleep

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

Life Man Power Gives Except Powers His Unfolding Meaning

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