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Erich Fromm Quotes

"The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.""There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.""Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.""If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?""The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science""Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction ""The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots ""Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others ""In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two ""Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies ""The more man alienates himself from the world around him, the more he alienates himself also from his own inner world""The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most""Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence""The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers""Happiness is an achievement brought about by the inner productiveness of man and it is a state of being which can be maintained only as long as our inner productiveness isn’t dead""Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties""Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is""To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person"