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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.
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.
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.
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
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.
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.
