Famous Erich Fromm Quotes

  • They have their big, ever-changing egos, but none has a self, a core, a sense of identity. – Erich Fromm

    They have their big, ever-changing egos, but none has a self, a core, a sense of identity.– Erich Fromm

  • A society whose members are helpless need idols. – Erich Fromm

    A society whose members are helpless need idols.– Erich Fromm

  • They were more free, but they were more alone. – Erich Fromm

    They were more free, but they were more alone.– Erich Fromm

  • To feel completely alone and isolated leads to mental disintegration just as physical starvation leads to death. – Erich Fromm

    To feel completely alone and isolated leads to mental disintegration just as physical starvation leads to death.– Erich Fromm

  • The sexual act without love never bridges the gap between two human beings, except momentarily.. – Erich Fromm

    The sexual act without love never bridges the gap between two human beings, except momentarily..– Erich Fromm

  • The sexual act without love never bridges the gap between two human beings, except momentarily. – Erich Fromm

    The sexual act without love never bridges the gap between two human beings, except momentarily.– Erich Fromm

  • What a person considers the minimal necessities depends as much on his character as it depends on his actual possessions. – Erich Fromm

    What a person considers the minimal necessities depends as much on his character as it depends on his actual possessions.– Erich Fromm

  • People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love – or to be loved by – is difficult. – Erich Fromm

    People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love – or to be loved by – is difficult.– Erich Fromm

  • Only in the love of those who do not serve a purpose, love begins to unfold. – Erich Fromm

    Only in the love of those who do not serve a purpose, love begins to unfold.– Erich Fromm

  • If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. – Erich Fromm

    If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.– Erich Fromm