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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.
The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
