Erich Fromm Quotes

Reason and intellect are opening wedges in an understanding of reality.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.

Happy is the one who knows the causes of things.

In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could be an illusion. All humans live with the wrong assumptions. Isn't that another way of looking at it? That sharingan how much can you really se?

Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

Wisdom is only found in truth.

Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.

My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions.

In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.

Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.