More Quotes by Erich Fromm
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 affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.Fromm
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
