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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
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 lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
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.
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.
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.
When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.
