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.
Erich FrommGreed๏ผhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.
Erich FrommThat millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
Erich FrommI think, to be specific, we got off the track when we concentrated more and more on production of things. Thereby, we created a split between intellect and emotion, because, in order to produce a modern technique, you have to use intellect, and we have created men who are very brilliant, who are very clever, but our emotional life has become impoverished.
Erich Fromm