Quotes from Erich Fromm

Tarih hiçbir ÅŸey deÄŸildir ve hiçbir ÅŸey yapmaz. Bir ÅŸey olan ve yapan, insand?r.

Ä°nsanlar?n çoÄŸu, sevgi konusundaki sorunlar?n?n sevilmemek olduÄŸunu ileri sürerler. Bu nedenle de bütün güçleriyle nas?l sevimli ve sevilebilir olacaklar? konusunda gayret gösterirler. Oysa as?l sorun sevilmemekte deÄŸil, sevmeyi bilmemekte gizlidir... Üretici bir biçimde seven bir kimse, kendini de sever. Yaln?zca baÅŸkalar?n? seven bir kimse ise, asl?nda hiç kimseyi sevmiyor demektir.

FaÅŸizm ve benzeri hareketler (ki, bunlar?n isimlerini onlar ortaya ç?k?p geliÅŸtikten sonra koyar?z ) ancak, hem ferdi ve hem de toplumsal hayat? etkileyen kararlar? verme noktas?nda yayg?n bir pasifliÄŸin olduÄŸu ve insanlar?n kat?l?mc? olmad??? toplumlarda yeÅŸerirler. (Hayat? Sevmek)

What matters is that new forms of propertylessness will do away with the sexual greed that is characteristic of all having societies.

Tüketime tutku derecesinde baÄŸl? olmak kiÅŸilerin kendi korkular?n? dengelemeye çal??malar?ndan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir.

If we want to Fascism we must understand it. Wishful thinking will not help us. And reciting optimistic formulae will prove to be as inadequate and useless as the ritual of an Indian rain dance.

That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.

Bewussteren war der wichtigste Faktor in Freuds Therapie. Wenn es - das war die Ansicht Freuds - dem Patienten gelingt, den fiktiven Charakter seiner bewussten Ideen einzusehen, wen er die Realität hinter diesen Ideen zu erfassen vermag, wenn er sich das Unbewusste bewusst machen kann, dann wird er auch die Kraft gewinnen, sich von den Irrationalität zu befreien und sich selbst zu wandeln.

We naïvely believe that things like tables and lamps exist as such, and we fail to see that society teaches us to transform sensations into perceptions that permit us to manipulate the world around us in order to enable us to survive in a given culture. Once we have given such percepts a name, the name seems to guarantee the final and unchangeable reality of the percept.

tornar-se consciente de que o amor é uma arte, assim como viver é uma arte; se quisermos aprender como se ama, devemos proceder do mesmo modo por que agiríamos se quiséssemos aprender qualquer outra arte, seja a música, a pintura, a carpintaria, ou a arte da medicina ou da engenharia

Nature is the great power we have to submit to, but living beings are the ones we should dominate.

Wer das Phänomen des Unbewussten nicht kennt, ist überzeugt, die Wahrheit zu sagen, wenn er das sagt, was er weiß.

The worker, or rather his labor, was a commodity to be bought by the owner of capital, not essentially different from any other commodity on the market, and it was used to its fullest capacity by the buyer.

Estar concentrado significa vivir plenamente en el presente, en el aquí y el ahora, y no pensar en la tarea siguiente mientras estoy realizando otra. Es innecesario decir que la concentración debe ser sobre todo practicada por personas que se aman mutuamente. Deben aprender a estar el uno cerca del otro, sin escapar de las múltiples formas acostumbradas.

Ä°deoloji, doÄŸas? gereÄŸi etkin düÅŸünceye de, etkin duyguya da çekici gelmez. Ä°nsan? ya heyecanland?ran ya da uyutan hap gibidir. Hitler, Mein Kampfda (Kavgam'da) halk? toplay?p galeyana getirmek için en elveriÅŸli zaman?n, insanlar?n yorgun ve etkilenmeye aç?k olduÄŸu akÅŸam saatleri olduÄŸunu söylerken bu noktay? aç?kça gördüÄŸünü belirtiyordu.

we must admit that all human history so far (perhaps with the exception of certain primitive societies) has been based on force: the force and power of a prosperous minority over a majority who work hard and enjoy little.

El hombre sólo puede ser humano en un clima en el que pueda esperar que él y sus hijos vivirán para ver el año siguiente y muchos más años por vivir.

It wants to convince the reader that all his attempts for love are bound to fail, unless he tries most actively to develop his total personality, so as to achieve a productive orientation; that satisfaction in individual love cannot be attained without the capacity to love one's neighbor, without true humility, courage, faith and discipline.

Yeni bilim'in geliÅŸmesiyle, geleneksel din biçimleri, giderek etkisini yitirmiÅŸ Avrupa'da, dinsel deÄŸerlerin yitirilmesi tehlikesi baÅŸgöstermiÅŸtir. Dostoyevski bu korkuyu ÅŸu ünlü tümcesinde dile getirmiÅŸtir: Tanr? yoksa, her ÅŸey mümkündür.

Exploitation was not personal any more, but it had become anonymous, as it were. It was the law of the market that condemned a man to work for starvation wages, rather than the intention or greed of any one individual. Nobody was responsible or guilty, nobody could change conditions either. One was dealing with the iron laws of society, or so it seemed.

Assume, for instance, that 20 percent of the American car-consuming population were to decide not to buy private automobiles any more, because they believed that, in comparison with excellent public transportation, the private automobile is economically wasteful, ecologically poisonous, and psychologically damaging—a drug that creates an artificial feeling of power, increases envy, and helps one to run away from oneself.

Umut yok olduÄŸunda, yaÅŸam olgusal ya da gizil (potansiyel) olarak sona ermiÅŸtir. Umut, yaÅŸam?n doÄŸas?nda, insan ruhunun dinamiÄŸinde varolan bir öÄŸedir. YaÅŸam?n doÄŸas?n? oluÅŸturan bir baÅŸka öÄŸeye çok yak?ndan baÄŸl?d?r. Bu öge, inanç'd?r.

Yet this absolute power of God over man is counterbalanced by the idea that man is God's potential rival.

Toda sociedad que excluya, relativamente, el desarrollo del amor, a la larga perece a causa de su propia contradicción con las necesidades básicas de la naturaleza del hombre.