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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built
