Erich Pinchas Fromm:
(Frankfurt am Main, 23 March 1900 – Muralto (Switzerland), 18 March 1980).
Internationally renowned German-American psychologist, social psychologist and philosopher.
Although he grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family, he later adhered to a humanist philosophy of life. He began his career as a Freudian psychoanalyst in Berlin.
An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.
Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination.
Human existence begins when the lack of fixation of action by instincts exceeds a certain point; when the adaptation to nature loses its coercive character; when the way to act is no longer fixed by hereditarily given mechanisms. In other words, human existence and freedom are from the beginning inseparable.
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.
Happiness is not a gift from the gods; it is the result of an inner attitude.
The lust for power has its origin not in strength but in weakness.
Greed and peace are mutually exclusive.
Boredom is one of the most terrible plagues of our time.
The key point is whether you have authority or are an authority.
It is not he who has much who is rich, but he who gives much.
We are a society of notoriously unhappy people who are happy when they manage to kill the time they are constantly trying to save.
