Erich Fromm Quotes - Page 2

Tarih hiçbir şey değildir ve hiçbir şey yapmaz. Bir şey olan ve yapan, insandır.

Tutku insanın, amaçlarına ulaşma çabası gösterme yeteneğidir.

Yeni bilim'in gelişmesiyle, geleneksel din biçimleri, giderek etkisini yitirmiş Avrupa'da, dinsel değerlerin yitirilmesi tehlikesi başgöstermiştir. Dostoyevski bu korkuyu şu ünlü tümcesinde dile getirmiştir: "Tanrı yoksa, her şey mümkündür.

Umut yok olduğunda, yaşam olgusal ya da gizil (potansiyel) olarak sona ermiştir. Umut, yaşamın doğasında, insan ruhunun dinamiğinde varolan bir öğedir. Yaşamın doğasını oluşturan bir başka öğeye çok yakından bağlıdır. Bu öge, inanç'dır.

Başkalarının değişebileceğine inanç duymam için benim değişme deneyimini yaşamış olmam gerekir.

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.

Aliveness always makes a beautiful.

Fantazie a sny jsou začátkem mnoha skutků a nic by nebylo horší než je podceňovat a snícímu brát odvahu k nim. Jde o to, jaký druh fantazií máme - zda nás vedou vpřed, anebo zda nás drží v řetězech neproduktivnosti.

Immature love says:"I love you because i need you". Mature love says: " I need you because i love you".

Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved."
Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love."
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you."
Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.

Si percibo en otra persona nada más que lo superficial, percibo principalmente las diferencias, lo que nos separa. Si penetro hasta el núcleo, percibo nuestra identidad, el hecho de nuestra hermandad.

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

[E]thical principles stand above the existence of the nation and that by adhering to these principles an individual belongs to the community of all those who share, who have shared, and who will share this belief.

Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable; hence any social, political, and religious system which proclaims freedom, yet stamps out disobedience, cannot speak the truth.

Různí vůdcové používali až příliš často heslo, že vedou svůj lid do boje za svobodu, zatímco ve skutečnosti ho chtěli zotročit. Že žádný slib neoslovuje člověka mocněji, dokazuje i to, že i vůdci, kteří chtějí svobodu potlačit, považují za nutné ji slibovat.

The paradoxical situation with a vast number of people today is that they are half asleep when awake, and half awake when asleep, or when they want to sleep.

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

I think that the word bored does not get the attention it deserves. We speak of all sorts of terrible things that happen to people, but we rarely speak about one of the most terrible things of all : that is, being bored, being bored alone and, worse than that, being bored together.

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.