We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. – Erich Fromm
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? – Erich Fromm
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. – Erich Fromm
We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams… we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake. – Erich Fromm