Erich Fromm Quotes

Man's main task is to give birth to himself.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.

Dreams - A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

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

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.

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

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