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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.
An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
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.
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
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.
