Erich Fromm

If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.

Erich Fromm

If there is no evidence that sport lowers aggression, at the same time it should be said that there is also no evidence that sport is motivated by aggression.

Erich Fromm

If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud.

Erich Fromm

In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only tolerate, she must wish and support the child’s separation.

Erich Fromm

In the dream, sheltered from the noise, the subject expressed a judgment much more on the mark than that manifested in wakefulness.

Erich Fromm

Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable; hence any social, political, and religious system which proclaims freedom, yet stamps out disobedience, cannot speak the truth.

Erich Fromm

Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you can potentially be.

Erich Fromm

It doesn’t matter whether one uses God or doesn’t. What matters is which experience a person has.

Erich Fromm

Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.

Erich Fromm

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Erich Fromm