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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age.

Author: Erich Fromm (1900-1980) | Theme: Society | Clicks: 130 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Erich Fromm (1900-1980) | Theme: Happiness | Clicks: 155 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Erich Fromm (1900-1980) | Theme: People | Clicks: 134 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Erich Fromm (1900-1980) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 109 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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...

Author: Erich Fromm (1900-1980) | Theme: Dream | Clicks: 157 | Rank: 0 | Fav

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Author: Erich Fromm (1900-1980) | Theme: Hope | Clicks: 121 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Erich Fromm (1900-1980) | Theme: Death | Clicks: 120 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Erich Fromm (1900-1980) | Theme: Life | Clicks: 101 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Erich Fromm (1900-1980) | Theme: Life | Clicks: 123 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Erich Fromm (1900-1980) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 103 | Rank: 0 | Fav

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Author: Erich Fromm (1900-1980) | Theme: Liberty | Clicks: 127 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Erich Fromm (1900-1980) | Theme: Succes | Clicks: 110 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Erich Fromm (1900-1980) | Theme: Fear | Clicks: 167 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind not the fiend or the sadist.

Author: Erich Fromm (1900-1980) | Theme: Power | Clicks: 136 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

Author: Erich Fromm (1900-1980) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 107 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and...

Author: Erich Fromm (1900-1980) | Theme: Advice | Clicks: 329 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Erich Fromm (1900-1980) | Theme: Beauty | Clicks: 325 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Author: Erich Fromm (1900-1980) | Theme: Creation | Clicks: 166 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Author: Erich Fromm (1900-1980) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 93 | Rank: 7.00 | Fav

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

Author: Erich Fromm (1900-1980) | Theme: Mother | Clicks: 161 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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