More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.
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.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
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
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.
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
