647 Quotes by Erich Fromm

We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

We have faith in the potentialities of others, of ourselves, and of mankind because, and only to the degree to which, we have experienced the growth of our own potentialities, the reality of growth in ourselves, the strength of our own power of reason and love.

While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.

Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

Love is the only way of knowledge, which in the act of union answers my quest. In the act of loving, of giving myself, in the act of penetrating the other person, I find myself, I discover myself, I discover us both, I discover man.

Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.

In times of change, learners inherit the earth

When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.