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1. The Sane Society

   Erich Fromm

   “In the experience of love lies the only answer to being human, lies sanity.”

   The great humanistic philosopher and psychologist Erich Fromm on what self-love really means and why it’s the basic condition for a sane society:

2. The Art of Listening

   Erich Fromm

   “Understanding and loving are inseparable. If they are separate, it is a cerebral process and the door to essential understanding remains closed.”

   Erich Fromm’s 6 rules of listening and unselfish understanding:

3. The Sane Society

   Erich Fromm

   “The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born, when we die.”

   The great humanistic philosopher and psychologist Erich Fromm on how to save us from ourselves:

4. The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

   Erich Fromm

   “Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair… To have faith means to dare, to think the unthinkable, yet to act within the limits of the realistically possible.”

   The great humanistic philosopher and psychologist Erich Fromm on human nature, the common laziness of optimism and pessimism, and why we need rational faith in the human spirit – wisdom from half a century ago, timelier than ever:

5. The Art of Loving

   Erich Fromm

   “There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as love.”

   Philosopher Erich Fromm on the art of loving and what is keeping us from mastering it – immensely insightful read: