More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
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
Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
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.
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built
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
