American - Psychologist | March 23, 1900 - March 18, 1980
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
Erich Fromm
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The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
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There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
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In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
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The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.
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The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
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Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.
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There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
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Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
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In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
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There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
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We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
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