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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
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Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.
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?
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built
Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.Fromm
