Erich Fromm Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”

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

“To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.”

“We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.”

“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.”

“Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.”

“Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.”

“There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.”

“Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.”