English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Erich Fromm Quotes

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Erich Fromm

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "There are two things children should get from their parents:..."
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it. Shia LaBeouf
Each book is a new book. I’ve never written it before and I have to teach myself how to write it as I go along. The fact that I’ve written books in the past seems to play no part in it. I always feel like a beginner and I’m continually running into the same difficulties, the same blocks, the same despairs. You make so many mistakes as a writer, cross out so many bad sentences and ideas, discard so many worthless pages, that finally what you learn is how stupid you are. It’s a humbling... Paul Auster
Bill McCollum quote: "A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal..."
A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial. Bill McCollum
Jan Morris quote: "Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that..."
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasureof a library lies in its very existence. Jan Morris
Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a liberal arts education not having read major works from this canon. Their lives are not ending. And the exciting dimension of knowledge is that we can learn a work without formally studying it. If a student graduates without reading Shakespeare and then reads or studies this work later, it does not delegitimize whatever formal course of study that was completed. Bell Hooks
Ken Kesey quote: "I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my..."
I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound. Ken Kesey
David Antin quote: "I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of..."
I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions. David Antin
Hyman Rickover quote: "If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy;..."
If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. Hyman Rickover
For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden. Karl Malone
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you. Mark Twain
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. Margaret Young
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Alan Watts
Richard Russo quote: "People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake."
People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake. Richard Russo
It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again. David Foster Wallace