Happiness is a very proud word of our whole cultural heritage. Erich Fromm More Quotes by Erich Fromm More Quotes From Erich Fromm ...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving. Could it be that only those things are considered worthy of being learned with which one can earn money or prestige, and that love, which "only" profits the soul, but is profitless in the modern sense, is a luxury we have no right to spend energy on? Erich Fromm luxury soul art Giving is the highest expression of potency. Erich Fromm charity expression giving Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. Erich Fromm animal men life Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead. Erich Fromm love-life life-and-death life-is Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies. Erich Fromm creativity life mean Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of love, equality, and freedom were really practiced instead of only preached, there would be no need for a special institution(the church) to take care of those principles. Erich Fromm special christian mean Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth. Erich Fromm growth freedom fundamentals Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. Erich Fromm soulmate love-you integrity People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult. Erich Fromm simple love-is thinking The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own Erich Fromm our-thoughts able mean Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life. Erich Fromm passion motivation real Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it. Erich Fromm learning time knowledge Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced only in freedom and never as a result of compulsion. Erich Fromm passion life fall The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. Erich Fromm future anger past We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that we- that I- exist. No matter how much he thinks of God or goes to church, or how much he believes in religious ideas , if he, the whole man, is deaf to the question of existence, if he does not have an answer to it, he is marking time, and he lives and dies like one of the million things he produces. He thinks of God, instead of experiencing God. Erich Fromm wisdom religious fun The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have. Erich Fromm affluent affluence want Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’. Erich Fromm oneness today mean The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety. Erich Fromm nonviolent-communication anxiety source The hoarders, who are anxiously worried about losing something, are, psychologically speaking, the poor impoverished people, regardless of how much they have. Whoever is capable of giving of themselves is rich. Erich Fromm losing giving people True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta match. Erich Fromm secret love two
