Erich Fromm

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"The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have."	Desires, Wants
"Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much."	Miscellaneous
"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal."	Crime, Men, Success
"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
"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
"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
"We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake."	Friendship, Dreams
"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"	Education
"Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him."	Miscellaneous
"Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want."	Miscellaneous
"That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate."	Friendship, Destruction
"There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail."	Failure, Freedom, Liberty
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"	Love
"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?"	Effort, Happiness, Joy
"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."	Birth, Hope, Life
"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
"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."	Art, Books, Imagination
"Dreams - A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul."	Dreams, Sleeping
"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."	Age, Doubt, Men
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Crime	Desires	Destruction
Doubt	Dreams	Education
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Faith	Freedom	Friends
Friendship	Happiness	History
Honesty	Hope	Imagination
Intelligence	Joy	Knowledge
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Love	Men	Miscellaneous
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Reading	School	Sin
Sleeping	Success	Teaching
Time	Truth	Wants
War	Wisdom	Wishing