American - Psychologist | March 23, 1900 - March 18, 1980
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
Erich Fromm
I AmBrainyLoseWhoThenAm
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
ManAnimalProblemExistenceOwnHe
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
ManEqualityEnvironmentalProcess
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.
DreamsGreatWorldBusyLanguage
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.
LoveMotherRelationshipChildMom
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
FaithPersonOthersFaithfulAble
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
FreedomRealWithoutFail
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
LoveIntegrityLove IsSelfOutside
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.
LoveLove IsPersonOthersOnlyHis
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
LoveManLove IsWorldEmbraceJust
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
CulturePeopleSexMeanBeingMost
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
LoveLove IsProblemHumanExistence
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