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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love
When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.
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.
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.
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
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.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
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.
