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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
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
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built
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.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
If other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being 'asocial' or 'irrational' in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.
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.
