The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
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
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love
Erich Fromm
Love Quotes
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge
Erich Fromm
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Erich Fromm
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.