Fromm, Erich Filmography

• Play in Full Screen A Zen Life: D.T. Suzuki

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Erich Fromm:

"Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love"

"Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others."

"Man always dies before he is fully born."

"There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail."

"To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness"

"Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines"

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

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."

"Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love."

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.'"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies."

"Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either."

"What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal."