Erich Fromm Quotes About Unity

Quotes about: Unity

• Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Wall, Integrity

  ERICH FROMM (1956). “THE ART OF LOVING”

• I believe that the unity of man as opposed to other living things derives from the fact that man is the conscious life of himself. Man is conscious of himself, of his future, which is
  death, of his smallness, of his impotence; he is aware of others as others; man is in nature, subject to its laws even if he transcends it with his thought.

  Erich Fromm

  Believe, Men, Law

  Erich Fromm (2013). “On Being Human”, p.123, Open Road Media

• The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural and human world outside.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Unity, Unbearable

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.385, Open Road Media

• Basically, there can only be two answers. One is to overcome separateness and find unity by regression to the state of unity which existed before awareness ever arose, that is, before man was born. The other answer is to be fully born, to develop one's awareness, one's reason, one's capacity to love to such a point that one transcends one's own egocentric involvement, and arrives at a new harmony, at a new oneness with the world.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Capacity To Love, Two

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism”, p.21, Open Road Media

• I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it.

  Erich Fromm

  Believe, Men, Unity

  Erich Fromm (1994). “On Being Human”, Continuum

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