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People 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…
- Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the…
- People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.
- Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought to know everything,…
- In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only…
- Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without his being aware…
- Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there is harmony or…
- 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…
- There is no word in our language which has been so much misused and prostituted as the word love. It has been preached by those…
- The hoarders, who are anxiously worried about losing something, are, psychologically speaking, the poor impoverished people, regardless of how much they have. Whoever is capable…
- People seek a new orientation, a new philosophy, one which is centered on the priorities of life-physically and spiritually-and not on the priorities of death.
- Man absolutely cannot live by himself.
- I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department…
- Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
- What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
- Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the…
- It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings.…
- That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
- 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…
- People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question : "Am I…
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