In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
Erich FrommThere are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.
Erich FrommTo love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one individual, in so far as it is divorced from love for man, can refer only to the superficial and to the accidental; of necessity it remains shallow.
Erich Fromm