Erich Fromm

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

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

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

Man always dies before he is fully born.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

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.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

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

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

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

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

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