“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
“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.”
DreamsAll Quotes by Erich Fromm
“Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.”
Love“Man always dies before he is fully born.”
Death“Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'”
Love“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 to become fully independent.”
Love“In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.”
Love“There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.”
Freedom“Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.”
Love“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
Courage“Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.”
Faith“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“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“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”
Age“Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.”
Love“In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.”
God“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“There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.”
Power“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 ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.”
Power“The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.”
Art