Then I leave you over 60 Erich Fromm's Phrases (Germany, 1900 - Switzerland, 1980), a philosopher and psychoanalyst who fiercely criticized Western society through its large number of publications. Due to his Jewish origins, he was forced to emigrate to the American continent.
His texts deal extensively with love, hate, nationalism, nature and culture, among many other topics.
He is considered one of the founders of the American psychoanalytic culturalist school, which focuses on solving the neurosis of the modern human being through the imposition of humanism over consumerism and economic values.
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1. Only the person who has faith in himself is able to have faith in others.
2. Dying is tinged with a touching bitterness, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
3. The meaning of life consists only in the act of living itself.
4. It is not rich who has much, but who gives much.
5. It is paradoxical in love that two beings become one and at the same time remain two.
6. The human being always dies before being born completely.
7. Selfish people are unable to love others, nor are they capable of loving themselves.
8. The biological weakness of being is the condition of human culture.
9. In the same way that mass production requires the standardization of goods, the social process requires the standardization of the human being, and this standardization is called equality.
10. Paradoxically, being able to be alone is the condition to be able to love.
11. Nationalism is our form of incest, it is our idolatry, it is our madness. He
Patriotism is his sect.
12. Fair means not resort to fraud and deception in exchange for comforts and services or in exchange for feelings.
13. Love is not natural, but requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith and the defeat of narcissism. It is not a feeling, it is a practice.
14. Both dreams and myths represent important communications of ourselves to ourselves.
15. Perhaps there is no phenomenon that contains a destructive feeling greater than moral indignation, which leads to envy or hatred to act disguised as virtue.
16. In erotic love, two people who were separated become one. In maternal love, two people who were one separate.
17. If I perceive the surface in another person mainly, I perceive mainly the differences, that separates us. If I enter inside, I perceive its identity, our relationship of brotherhood.
18. The search for narcissistic satisfaction stems from the need to compensate for material and cultural poverty.
19. Longing means being prepared at every moment for what has not yet been born and at the same time not despair if there is no birth in our life.
20. One can not be completely sensitive to the world without often being saddened.
21. There is almost no activity or project that begins with such high hopes and expectations, and fails as often as love.
22. That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not imply that these people are strings.
23. There is no word in the language that has been prostituted more than the word love.
24. Life has no meaning, except the very sense that each one gives to his own life by revealing all his powers.
25. The history of mankind began with an act of disobedience and is most likely to end with an act of obedience.
26. Society should be organized in such a way that the social and loving nature of the human being should not be separated from its social existence, but should be united.
27. There can be no freedom without the freedom to fail.
28. Immature love says,"I love you because I need you." Mature love says,"I need you because I love you."
29. The human being has two basic orientations: to have and to be. Having involves acquiring and possessing things, even people. Being focuses on experience: exchange, commit, share with other people.
30. The fundamental alternative for the human being is the choice between life and death, between creativity and destructive violence, between reality and illusions, between objectivity and intolerance, between brotherhood and independence and domination and submission.
31. The mature answer to the problem of existence is love.
32. The main task of the human being in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he really is. The most important product of your effort is your own personality.
33. If I am what I have and if I lose what I have, then who am I?
34. We live in a world of things and our only relationship with them is that we know how to manipulate or consume them.
35. Love is usually a favorable exchange between two people who get the most out of what they can expect, taking into account their value in the personalities market.
36. In the nineteenth century the problem was that God had died. In the twentieth century the problem is that the human being is dead.
37. Accepting the difficulties, setbacks and tragedies of life as a challenge that, by overcoming it, makes us stronger.
38. Why does society feel responsible only for the education of children and not for the education of adults of any age?
39. Sanity is simply what is in the framework of conventional thinking.
40. We are a society of deeply unhappy people: lonely, worried, depressed,
Destructive, dependent; People who are delighted when we kill the time we are trying to treasure with eagerness.
41. Creativity means being born before you die.
42. Who could say if a happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking during a sunny morning and sniffing the fresh air do not deserve all the intrinsic effort and suffering in life.
43. The conditions to be creative are to be puzzled, to concentrate, to accept conflict and tension, to be born every day, to feel the reason of oneself.
44. The human being is the product of natural evolution that arises from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature and the need to find unity and harmony in it.
45. If one is not productive in other aspects, one is not productive in love either.
46. Not enough attention is paid to the word boredom. We talk about many horrible things that happen to people, but we do not usually talk about one of the worst things: feeling bored, whether in solitude or, worse, in company.
47. Only prosperous ones who do not want more than what they have.
48. The task we must do is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
49. If a person wants only one person and is indifferent to all others, then his love is not love, but symbolic attachment or dilated egotism.
50. Avarice is a bottomless pit that exhausts the person in an eternal effort to satisfy the need without even reaching satisfaction.
51. Freedom does not mean a license.
52. There is nothing inhuman, malignant or irrational that does not produce any kind of comfort if done in a group.
53. Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.
54. What most people understand in our culture for being loved is basically a mix of popularity and sex appeal.
55. Love is the only cordial and satisfying answer to the problem of human existence.
56. Authority is not a quality that a person has, in the sense of having physical properties or qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relationship in which one person looks at another with superiority.
57. Love is an energy that produces love.
58. The human being is the only animal whose existence is a problem that has to be solved.
59. The search for certainty blocks the sense. Uncertainty is the only condition that incites the human being to reveal his powers.
60. The maternal-filial relationship is paradoxical and, in a certain sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the part of the mother, but precisely this love must help the child to distance himself from the mother and achieve total independence.
61. We are what we do.
62. Love is the union with someone or something outside oneself, on the condition of preserving individualism and integrity.
63. We all dream; We do not understand our dreams, and yet we act as if nothing strange happens in our sleeping minds, rare at least in regard to what our minds do logically and decidedly when we are awake.
64. Mother's love is peace. It does not need to be acquired, it does not need to be deserved.
65. The danger of the past was that humans would become slaves. The danger of the future is that these humans could become robots.
66. The revolutionary and critical thinker is always somehow outside society and at the same time part of it.