More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
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
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.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
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.
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
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.
