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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
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
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
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.
The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
