More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
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.
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
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.
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
