647 Quotes by Erich Fromm

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

Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.

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

Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.

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

Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He has constructed a complicated social machine to administer the technical machine he built. The more powerful and gigantic the forces are which he unleashes, the more powerless he feels himself as a human being. He is owned by his creations, and has lost ownership of himself.

The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Man absolutely cannot live by himself.