Erich Fromm Quotes


Basically, there can only be two answers. One is to overcome separateness and find unity by regression to the state of unity which existed before awareness ever arose, that is, before man was born. The other answer is to be fully born, to develop one's awareness, one's reason, one's capacity to love to such a point that one transcends one's own egocentric involvement, and arrives at a new harmony, at a new oneness with the world.


Citations

Fromm, Erich. The Sane Society. Rinehart & Company, 1955, p. 27.

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Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm
  • Born: March 23, 1900
  • Died: March 18, 1980
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Psychologist

Erich Seligmann Fromm was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the US. He was one of the founders of The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City and was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.