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Condition Quotes by Erich Fromm
- The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real…
- Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.
- All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.
- The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
- Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
- Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
- Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
- Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself…
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