More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
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
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.
Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built
Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
