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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.
Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.
The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
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.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
