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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
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 lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
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.
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.
