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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
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.
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
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.
Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built
