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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
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 lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
