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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
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.
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
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
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?
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.