Erich Fromm

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. ”

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. ”

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. ”

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. ”

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. ”

The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. ”

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. ”

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. ”

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted. ”

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 personality market. ”