647 Quotes by Erich Fromm

في عملية تتطور الوجود يتم تحقق الجوهر, وفي نفس الوقت يعني الوجود عودة إلي الجوهر. يكون العالم مُغرَّباً وغير حقيقي طالما أن الإنسان لم يدمر موضوعية العالم الباردة, ولم يدرك ذاته وعالمه فيما وراء الأشكال الثابتة للأشياء والقوانين. فعندما يحصل الإنسان في النهاية علي وعي الذات فإنه لا يكون فقط في طريقه لمعرفة حقيقة ذاته بل وحقيقة العالم أيضاً. كما انه من خلال الإدراك يقوم الفعل, أي أن الإنسان سيحاول وضع الحقيقة في الفعل ويُصَيِّر العالم ما هو جوهرياً فيه أي تحديد وعي الذات للإنسان

[hablando de "libertad y democracia"] (...) Nos sentimos orgulloso/as de no estar sujeto/as a ninguna autoridad externa, de ser libres de expresar nuestros pensamientos y emociones, y damos por supuesto que esta libertad garantiza -casi de manera automática- nuestra individualidad. El derecho de expresar nuestros pensamientos, sin embargo, tiene algún significado tan sólo si somos capaces de tener pensamientos propios; (...)El miedo a la libertad

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.

Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life.

Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there is harmony or conflict; joy or sadness, is secondary to the fundamental fact that two people experience themselves from the essence of their existence, that they are only one with each other by being one with themselves, rather than by fleeing from themselves.

Freedom does not mean license.

Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life

Love is an act of faith.