More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
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.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to 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
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.
