Erich Fromm Quote

Source/Notes: Variant: "If I am what I have and if what I am is lost, who then am I?" - To Have or to Be? (1976), Chapter 6 - Further Aspects of Having and Being

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“In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.”

- Erich Fromm

Source/Notes: The Art of Loving (2013 edition), Open Road Media - ISBN: 9781480402003

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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.”

- Erich Fromm

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“Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.”

- Erich Fromm

Source/Notes: Ch. 3 The Human Situation Sect. E The Need for a Frame of Orientation and Devotion — Reason vs. Irrationality - The Sane Society (1955)

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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.”

- Erich Fromm

Source/Notes: The Art of Loving (1956)

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“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.”

- Erich Fromm

Source/Notes: Ch. 5 Man in Capitalistic Society Sect. C.2.b Alienation - The Sane Society (1955)

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Erich Fromm Quote

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