Erich Fromm

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.

Erich Fromm

Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.

Erich Fromm

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

Erich Fromm

Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which determines the forms of awareness.

Erich Fromm

Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.

Erich Fromm

For the most part, biophiliacs, lovers of life, are found among simple people, without pretensions.

Erich Fromm

Happiness does not exclude sadness – If a person responds to life, he’s sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.

Erich Fromm

Happiness is a very proud word of our whole cultural heritage.

Erich Fromm

Happiness should be something which results from the creative, genuine, intense relatedness – awareness, responsiveness, to everything in life – to man, to nature.

Erich Fromm

Happiness today, I think, is for most people the satisfaction of the eternal suckling: to drink in more this, that, or the other.

Erich Fromm