What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. – Erich Fromm
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. – Erich Fromm
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. – Erich Fromm
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. – Erich Fromm
Destroy the roots of the healthiest plants, their heads will droop and die. Many excellent qualities of the mind have their roots, in fact, in the body: their summits, which adorn the spiritual being, the mind, will wither, if we neglect the soil of these valuable plants… – C.G. Salzmann, Gymnastics for Youth: or, A Practical Guide to Healthful and Amus