Quotes by Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom

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If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame — Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
The development of man's intellectual capacities has far outstripped the development of his emotions. Man's brain lives — Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
Ethical principles stand above the existence of the nation and that by adhering to these principles an individual belong — Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
The right to express out thoughts, however, means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own; freedom fro — Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
The more man gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he become — Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
Although there are certain needs, such as hunger, thirst, sex, which are common to man, those drives which make for the — Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medici — Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
since men are equal and thus have the same wish for happiness, and since there is not enough wealth to satisfy them all — Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
the key problem of psychology is that of the specific kind of relatedness of the individual towards the world and not th — Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
An individual may be alone in a physical sense for many years and yet he may be related to ideas, values, or at least so — Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
To feel completely alone and isolated leads to mental disintegration just as physical starvation leads to death. — Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
The field of human relations in Freud’s sense is similar to the market—it is an exchange of satisfaction of biologically — Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
What the psychological analysis of doctrines can show is the subjective motivations which make a person aware of certain — Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
What the psychological analysis of doctrines can show is the subjective motivations which make a person aware of certain — Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
What the psychological analysis of doctrines can show is the subjective motivations which make a person aware of certain — Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
The analysis of the psychological motivations behind certain doctrines or ideas can never be a substitute for a rational — Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
In studying the psychological significance of a religious or political doctrine, we must first bear in mind that the psy — Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
They were more free, but they were more alone. — Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
Life has ceased to be lived in a closed world the center of which was man; the world has become limitless and at the sam — Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
To transcend nature, to be alienated from nature and from another human being, finds man naked, ashamed. He is alone and — Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom