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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.
Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.
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.
