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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love
The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question : "Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired?" The main question is: "Can I love?
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
