Quotes by Fromm, Erich

Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradi >>

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mank >>

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

Quotations about Science and Scientists

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have Certainty w >>

From man or angel the great Architect did wisely to conceal, and not d >>

Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice in >>

The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced -- by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.

Fromm, Erich