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A German-American Jewish social psychologist, psychoanalyst, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. Erich Seligmann Fromm (March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a German-American Jewish social psychologist, psychoanalyst, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was associated with what became known as the Frankfurt School of critical theory.
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Man absolutely cannot live by himself.
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Man is the only animal that can be bored.
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Giving is the highest expression of potency.
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There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
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Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.
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Free man is by necessity insecure; thinking man by necessity uncertain.
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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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The successful revolutionary is a statesman the unsuccessful one a criminal.
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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
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Immature love says 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
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The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children and not for the education of all adults of every age?
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Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
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If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself since I am a human being too.
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To love means to commit oneself without guarantee to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person.
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There is hardly any activity any enterprise which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations and yet which fails so regularly as love.
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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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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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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.
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Love means to commit oneself without guarantee to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
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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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I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is they would say if they are honest that it is a big department store with new things every week - all the money to buy them and maybe a little more than the neighbours.
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One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary or any other reward he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.