More Quotes by Erich Fromm
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
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.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
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 is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love
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.
