647 Quotes by Erich Fromm

If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself, too; if he can love only others, he cannot love at all.

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of life, there are few which are as painful as boredom, and consequently every attempt is made to avoid it.

Love is hot a higher power which descends upon mn nor a duty which is imposed upon him; it is his own power by which he relates himself to the world and makes it truly his.

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

Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings.

Men are born equal but they are also born different.

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

There is only one reality: the act of feeling ourselves in the process of making choices.