647 Quotes by Erich Fromm

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

Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

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 does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.

Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how to be loved, how to be lovable.

I believe indeed that to rescue the humanist tradition of the last decades is of the utmost importance, and that Victor Serge is one of the outstanding personalities representing the socialist aspect of humanism.

Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

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.