Fromm Quotes

• I read a book in the late 1990s called The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, by Erich Fromm, and it had a profound impact on me. Fromm takes Descartes' statement, "I think, therefore I am" and changes it to "I effect, therefore I am."

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Libro, Pensamiento, Impacto

  Fuente: www.yesmagazine.org

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• ...Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give man infinite worth in a timeless scheme of things, and a body that is worth about 98¢.

  Ernest Becker

  Hombres, Ser, Personas

  "The Denial of Death". Book by Ernest Becker, 1973.

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• Recent breakthroughs in science show we have just the capacities we need to face our planet's challenges. We're "soft-wired" for cooperation, empathy, fairness, along with a deep need to "make a dent," as social philosopher Erich Fromm put it. My hunch is that one reason depression is a global pandemic is that the dominant mental map denies so many of us expression of these deep needs and capacities.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Compassion, Expression, Empathy

  "Frances Moore Lappe on Creating an Ecology of Hope". Interview with Mark Karlin, www.truth-out.org. December 26, 2011.

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• Un hecho debe asimilarse a otro u otros, o distinguirse de ellos, para ser elevado a la dignidad de verdad y transmitir el menor conocimiento a la mente.

  Henry Mayhew

  Order, Mind, Facts

  Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.157

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• Lo daimónico se refiere al poder de la naturaleza más que al superyó, y está más allá del bien y del mal. Tampoco es el "recuerdo de sí mismo" del hombre, como argumentaron Heidegger y posteriormente Fromm, ya que su origen se encuentra en aquellos ámbitos en los que el yo está arraigado en fuerzas naturales que van más allá del yo y que se sienten como el agarre del destino sobre nosotros. Lo daimónico surge de la base del ser más que del yo como tal.

  Rollo May

  Mentira, Destino, Hombres

  Rollo May (1969). "Amor y voluntad"

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