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Erich Fromm
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Quotes by Erich Fromm
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Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings...Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer.

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Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality

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Pleasure and thrill are conducive to sadness after the so-called peak has been reached; for the thrill has been experienced, but the vessel has not grown.

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

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Immature love says 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

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If I perceive in another person mainly the surface, I perceive mainly the differences, that which separates us. If I penetrate to the core, I perceive our identity, the fact of our brotherhood.

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

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Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.' Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you
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