Erich Fromm

Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination.

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated. - Erich Fromm Man for Himself The aim of sadism is to transform a man into a thng, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life-freedom.

Poszukiwanie pewności przeszkadza w poszukiwaniu znaczenia. Niepewność jest niezbędnym warunkiem do zmuszenia człowieka aby rozwinął skrzydła.

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Immature love says "I love you because I need you. "Mature love says "I need you because I love you

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

Miłość zaczyna się rozwijać dopiero wówczas, gdy kochamy tych, którzy nie mogą się nam na nic przydać.

Nie jest bogatym ten, co dużo ma, lecz ten, kto dużo daje. Ten, kto jedynie gromadzi, kto zamartwia się z powodu jakiejś straty, jest w sferze psychologicznej biednym.

Nikt z nas nie może zbawić cudzej duszy. Można zbawić tylko siebie samego.

The idea that egotism is the basis of the general welfare is the principle on which competitive society has been built.

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

Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.

Człowiek tylko wówczas jest szczęśliwy, kiedy interesuje się tym, co tworzy.

Technicznie zyjemy w epoce atomowej, uczuciowo ciagle w epoce kamiennej

Niedojrzała miłość mówi: "Kocham cię, ponieważ cię potrzebuję". Dojrzała miłość mówi: "Potrzebuję cię, ponieważ cię kocham.