“Man has transformed himself into a commodity, and experiences his life as capital to be invested profitably. If he succeeds in this, he is ‘successful’ and his life has meaning; if not, he is a ‘failure.’ His ‘value’ lies in his saleability, not in his human qualities of love and reason or in his artistic capacities. Hence, his sense of his own value depends on extraneous factors: his success, the judgment of others. Hence, he is dependent on these others, and his security lies in conformity, in never being more than two feet away from the herd.” – Erich Fromm
Advertisement
0 Responses to “words from erich fromm”