Erich+Fromm's+Quotes

//I found some interesting quotes by Erich Fromm, I put them in the wiki, hope that you will read them and enjoy them as much as I did//.

1. Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires the standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

2. The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impels man to unfold his powers.

3. The mother-child relationship is paradoxical, and in a sense, tragic.It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

4. Just to become acquainted with other ideas is not enough,even though that these ideas are in themselves right and potent. But ideas do have an effect on man if the idea is lived by the one who teaches it; if it is personified by the teacher, if the idea appears in the flesh. If a man expresses the idea of humility and is humble, then those who listen to him will understand what humility is.

5. To be radical is to go to the roots, and the root is **Man**.