Quotes by Fromm, Erich

Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. P >>

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a cr >>

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is inco >>

Quotations about Intelligence and Intellectuals

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. >>

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to mak >>

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out. >>

Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

Fromm, Erich