“There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.”
Freedom
“There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.”
FreedomAll Quotes by Erich Fromm
“There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.”
Power“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.”
Hope“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.”
Future“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.”
Dreams“Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.”
Love“Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.”
Love“The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.”
Power“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
Courage“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.”
Life“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 are awake.”
Dreams“The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.”
Politics“In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.”
God“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”
Love“Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.”
Faith“If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.”
Love“Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'”
Love“Man always dies before he is fully born.”
Death“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.”
Nature“Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.”
Equality