Erich Fromm Quotes

Women are equal because they are not different any more. - Erich Fromm

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? - Erich Fromm

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. - Erich Fromm

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

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. - Erich Fromm

We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake. - Erich Fromm

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. - Erich Fromm

Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him. - Erich Fromm

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness. - Erich Fromm

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. - Erich Fromm

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