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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
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.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
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
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.
