Quotes by Fromm, Erich

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture. >>

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

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I >>

Quotations about Birth

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in o >>

Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors. >>

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us >>

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.

Fromm, Erich