Quotes by Erich Fromm (Mar. 23, 1900 – Mar. 18, 1980)
Source: http://www.phillwebb.net/History/TwentiethCentury/continental/Marxism/Fromm/Fromm2.jpg
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one’s own self.
Man always dies before he is fully born.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Man’s biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
