Productive work, love, and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and a...

Productive work, love, and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone with himself. To be able to listen to oneself is a prerequisite for the ability to listen to others; to be at home with oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.

Erich Fromm

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Erich Fromm

German social psychologist and psychoanalyst

March 23rd, 1900 - March 18th, 1980

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