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Erich Fromm Quotes
«Authority is not a quality one person ''has,'' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
authority, interpersonal, one-person, property, qualities, referred to, refers, refers to, relation, superior, The sense
«Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Love,
Value
| Keywords:
Considering, exchange, favorable, market
«The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis»
«All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about the existence regardless of whether this truth serves or hinders the survival purpose of a given society. All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
expresses, hinders, human society, Human Touch, regardless, revolutionary, serves, survival, touches, transitory, various
«Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
customer, insignificance, methods, propaganda, voter
«By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which the person experiences himself as an alien. He has become, one might say, estranged from himself. He does not experience himself as the center of his world, as the creator of his own acts, but his acts and their consequences have become his masters, whom he obeys, or whom he may even worship. The alienated person is out of touch with himself as he is out of touch with any other person. He, like the others, is experienced as things are experienced; with the senses and with common sense, but at the same time without being related to oneself and to the world outside positively.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
alien, alienate, alienated, alienation, at the same time, center, common sense, common touch, consequences, Creator, estranged, estranges, estranging, experienced, experiences, Masters, meant, mode, obeys, of his own, positively, related, related to, senses, sense experience, sense of touch, The Center, The Others, the senses, worship
«Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world based on human solidarity and justice, only when he can feel rooted in the experience of universal brotherliness, will he have tr»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Justice,
Love,
Reason,
Solidarity,
Success
| Keywords:
developing, rooted, solidarity, succeeds
«Sanity - that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Sanity
| Keywords:
conventional, frame, frame of reference, reference, references, sanity, with reference to
«A vast sector of modern advertising... does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress its objects emotionally and then make them submit intellectually.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Advertising,
Emotion
| Keywords:
appeal, Appeal To Reason, emotionally, hypnoid, impress, intellectually, sector, submit, suggestion
«What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Sex
| Keywords:
appeal, culture, essentially, lovable, mixture, mixtures, popular, popular culture, sex appeal