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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.
A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.
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
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
