Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.
Erich FrommIn the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.
Erich FrommMan can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.
Erich FrommLove is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love
Erich FrommIf other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being 'asocial' or 'irrational' in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.
Erich Fromm