Erich Fromm
Born
in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
March 23, 1900
Died
March 18, 1980
Genre
Influences
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The Art of Loving
411 editions
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1956
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Escape from Freedom
211 editions
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1941
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To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
189 editions
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1976
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The Art of Being
57 editions
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1989
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The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
96 editions
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1973
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Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
134 editions
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1947
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The Sane Society
110 editions
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published
1955
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Psychoanalysis and Religion
76 editions
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published
1950
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جوهر الإنسان
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109 editions
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published
1944
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The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths
75 editions
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1951
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“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”
― The Art of Loving
― The Art of Loving
“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society. He cannot help doubting himself and his own convictions, if not his sanity. He cannot help suffering, even though he can experience moments of joy and clarity that are absent in the life of his "normal" contemporaries. Not rarely will he suffer from neurosis that results from the situation of a sane man living in an insane society, rather than that of the more conventional neurosis of a sick man trying to adapt himself to a sick society. In the process of going further in his analysis, i.e. of growing to greater independence and productivity,his neurotic symptoms will cure themselves.”
― The Art of Being
― The Art of Being
“Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.”
― The Art of Loving
― The Art of Loving
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