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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.
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
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.
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
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
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
