Erich Fromm Of Quotations

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet 'for sale', who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society.

Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.

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

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.

I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself.