Erich Fromm

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 forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

Man does not suffer so much from poverty today as he suffers from the fact that he has become a cog in a large machine, an automaton, that his life has become empty and lost its meaning.

The more a person realizes the dignity of the soul, the less they find themselves in conflict with others.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

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.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.