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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.
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.
Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.
Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.
