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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built
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
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
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.
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.
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.
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
