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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
If other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being 'asocial' or 'irrational' in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.
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.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
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 deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.
