Erich Fromm

Erich Fromm was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist and philosopher. Fromm was to be associated with what became known on a global scale as the Frankfurt School of critical theory.

His most famous work, “Escape from Freedom”, focuses on the individual’s urge to seek a source of authority and control. However, everything started from his belief that freedom was an individual’s first true desire. “The Sane Society” represented the culmination of his social and political philosophy. The book argued in favor of a humanistic and democratic socialism.

Date of birth:
23rd March, 1900
Date of death:
18th March, 1980
"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
― Erich Fromm
Topic(s): Science
"The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind – not the fiend or the sadist."
― Erich Fromm
Topic(s): Power
"There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers."
― Erich Fromm
Topic(s): Power
"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal."
― Erich Fromm
Topic(s): Politics
"The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man."
― Erich Fromm
Topic(s): Nature
"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots."
― Erich Fromm
Topic(s): Men
"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
Topic(s): Love
"Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."
― Erich Fromm
Topic(s): Love
"The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent."
― Erich Fromm
Topic(s): Love
"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."
― Erich Fromm
Topic(s): Life

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