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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
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.
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built
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
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
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.
People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question : "Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired?" The main question is: "Can I love?
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.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
