If the handbag could think, it would have a terrific inferiority feeling, because, not having been bought, it would feel useless.
Erich FrommPeople think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.
Erich FrommWe may know ourselves, and yet even with all the efforts we make, we do not know ourselves. We know our fellowman, and yet we do not know him, because we are not a thing, and our fellowman is not a thing. The further we reach into the depths of our being, on someone else's being, the more the goal of knowledge eludes us.
Erich FrommWhat most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
Erich Fromm