I think we got off the track, as many societies do, who follow successfully one aim, and yet are not capable of seeing at what point the pursuit of this aim prevents them from following a more total aim. That is to say, they get into a blind alley.
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 FrommThe state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.
Erich FrommBut not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.
Erich Fromm