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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
If other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being 'asocial' or 'irrational' in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.
People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question : "Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired?" The main question is: "Can I love?
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
