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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
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 real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built
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.
