A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.
Erich FrommWhat you might call the "symbol pushers" - that is to say, all of the people who deal with figures, with paper, with men, who manipulate - to use a better or nicer word - manipulate men and signs and words. All those today have not only to sell their service, but in the bargain, they have to sell their personality, more or less. There are exceptions.
Erich FrommMan today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the true religious experience.
Erich FrommThe scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.
Erich Fromm