647 Quotes by Erich Fromm

I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.

True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta match.

That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.

The greater the sense of powerlessness and the greater lack of authentic will, the more grows either submission or an obsessional desire for satisfaction of one’s whims and the insistence on arbitrariness.

In the sphere of material things giving means being rich. Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world based on human solidarity and justice, only when he can feel rooted in the experience of universal brotherliness, will he have tr.

The more man understands and masters nature the less he needs to use religion as a scientific explanation and as a magical device for controlling nature.

On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man’s need for collective art and ritual.

The approach of normative humanism is based on the assumption that, as in any other problem, there are right and wrong, satisfactory and unsatisfactory solutions to the problem of human existence.