Famous Erich Fromm Quotes

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
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Man always dies before he is fully born.
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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.
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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.
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Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
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In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
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To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
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