Erich Fromm

Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.

Erich Fromm

Man does not suffer so much from poverty today as he suffers from the fact that he has become a cog in a large machine, an automaton, that his life has become empty and lost its meaning.

Erich Fromm

Man is the only animal that can be bored.

Erich Fromm

Man’s biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

Erich Fromm

Modern man’s happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.

Erich Fromm

Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

Erich Fromm

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Erich Fromm

Our vitality, and the vitality of each nation, rests on the sincerity and depth of the faith in the ideas which it announces, or pronounces.

Erich Fromm

Pleasure and thrill are conducive to sadness after the so-called peak has been reached; for the thrill has been experienced, but the vessel has not grown.

Erich Fromm

That is not quite enough to make one happy, if one spends eight hours a day in something which in itself has no meaning and interest, except that one gains money from it.

Erich Fromm