Fromm

Fromm is a surname that may refer to:

Fromm
Family name
Related names Frommer, Fromme, Fromhold, Frum
  • Eric Fromm (born 1958), a former tennis player from the United States
  • Erich Fromm (1900–1980), an internationally renowned German-American Jewish psychologist and humanistic philosopher
  • Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (born Frieda Reichmann, 1889–1957), psychoanalyst, doctor; the wife of Erich Fromm
  • Friedrich Fromm (1888–1945), German army officer
  • Julius Fromm (1883–1945), inventor of the seamless latex condom
  • Paul Fromm (1906–1987), Chicago-based wine merchant and musical patron, Jewish refugee from the Nazis
  • Pete Fromm, American novelist

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Famous quotes containing the word fromm:

    “The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.”
    —Erich Fromm (1900–1980)

    “The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man’s nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become “Golems,” they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.”
    —Erich Fromm (1900–1980)

    “To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.”
    —Erich Fromm (1900–1980)