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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
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.
The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.
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.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
