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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.Fromm
The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.
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
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.
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.
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
