Erich Fromm Quotes


There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.


Citations

Fromm, Erich. The Art of Loving. Harper & Brothers, 1956, p. 4.

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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.