More - Erich Fromm Quotes

Integrity simple means not violating one's own identity.

Erich Fromm

 Identity Integrity

By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which the person experiences himself as an alien. He has become, one might say, estranged from himself. He does not experience himself as the center of his world, as the creator of his own acts, but his acts and their consequences have become his masters, whom he obeys, or whom he may even worship. The alienated person is out of touch with himself as he is out of touch with any other person. He, like the others, is experienced as things are experienced; with the senses and with common sense, but at the same time without being related to oneself and to the world outside positively.

Erich Fromm

 Alienation

The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

Erich Fromm

 American Psychologist

Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived lives

Erich Fromm

 

The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most

Erich Fromm

 Conscience

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines

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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve

Erich Fromm

 Animals

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you'

Erich Fromm

 I Love You

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

Erich Fromm

 American Psychologist Culture

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

Erich Fromm

 American Psychologist