Giving is the highest expression of potency.
-- Erich Fromm
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.
-- Erich Fromm
Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.
-- Erich Fromm
The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.
-- Erich Fromm
A vast sector of modern advertising... does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress its objects emotionally and then make them submit intellectually.
-- Erich Fromm
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.
-- Erich Fromm
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
-- Erich Fromm
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
-- Erich Fromm
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.
-- Erich Fromm
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
-- Erich Fromm
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
-- Erich Fromm
Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.
-- Erich Fromm
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
-- Erich Fromm
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
-- Erich Fromm
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.
-- Erich Fromm
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
-- 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
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