More Quotes by Erich Fromm
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.
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
