Author: Erich Fromm

Quotes

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

- Erich Fromm

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

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

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

- Erich Fromm

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

- Erich Fromm

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

- Erich Fromm

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

- Erich Fromm

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

- Erich Fromm

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

- Erich Fromm

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.

- Erich Fromm

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