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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.
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
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.
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.
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.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
