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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.
The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.
Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
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.
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.
