More Quotes by Erich Fromm
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
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.
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
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.
An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.
