Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought. Erich Fromm Read Quote
The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. Erich Fromm Read Quote
Authority is not a quality one person ‘has’, in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him. Erich Fromm Read Quote
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. Erich Fromm Read Quote
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. Erich Fromm Read Quote
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. Erich Fromm Read Quote
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind – not the fiend or the sadist. Erich Fromm Read Quote
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. Erich Fromm Read Quote
