More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
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
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
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.
The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.
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 isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.
