Erich Fromm Quotes

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue. - Erich Fromm

There is only one reality: the act of feeing ourselves in the process of making choices. - Erich Fromm

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself. - Erich Fromm

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. - Erich Fromm

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. - Erich Fromm

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. - Erich Fromm

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. - Erich Fromm

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

The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis. - Erich Fromm

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. - Erich Fromm

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