Erich Fromm

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"A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul."	Friendship, Dreams
"A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense."	Life, Men
"Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self."	Acceptance, Conflict, Creativity
"Dreams - A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul."	Dreams, Sleeping
"Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines."	Education, Men, School
"If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism."	Love
"If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated."	Age, Faith, Intelligence
"If it were not for hopes, the heart would break."	Art, Hope, Wishing
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"	Love
"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two."	Love
"Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less."	Love
"Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less."	Friendship, Dreams
"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."	Ability, Change, Love
"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."	Love
"Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self."	Love
"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."	Birth, Effort, Life
"Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want."	Miscellaneous
"Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want."	Quotations
"Modern man thinks he loses something; time; when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains; except kill it."	Knowledge, Men, Time
"Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much."	Miscellaneous
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Crime	Desires	Destruction
Doubt	Dreams	Education
Effort	Excellence	Failure
Faith	Freedom	Friends
Friendship	Happiness	History
Honesty	Hope	Imagination
Intelligence	Joy	Knowledge
Liberty	Lies	Life
Love	Men	Miscellaneous
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Reading	School	Sin
Sleeping	Success	Teaching
Time	Truth	Wants
War	Wisdom	Wishing