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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to 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
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.
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.
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
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.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
