Erich Fromm Quotes:
Ocupation: Psychologist
Life: March 23, 1900 - March 18, 1980
Birthday: March 23
Death: March 18
If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one's individual life from its limitations and instability to the plane of indestructability; if one's name is known to one's contemporaries and if one can hope that it will last for centuries, then one's life has meaning and significance by this very reflection of it in the judgments of others.
topic: Christian, Mean, Reflection, Judgment Of Others, Egyptian Pyramids
