erich Fromm

“A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living... No sensible answer can be given to the question... because the question does not make any sense.”

“All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it coexists. It expresses the truth about 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.”

“Education is helping the child realize his potentialities.”

“Love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.”

“Man had achieved freedom from--without yet having achieved freedom to--to be himself, to be productive, to be fully awake.”

“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that we may become robots.”

“The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.”

“The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.”

“There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.”

“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.”

“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies?”

“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”