Erich Fromm

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"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
"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."	Miscellaneous
"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
"Dreams - A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul."	Dreams, Sleeping
"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."	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
"A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul."	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
"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."	Quotations
"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
"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
"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."	Friendship, Dreams
"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two."	Love
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