Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He has constructed… - Erich Fromm

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation; in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society — and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic. In the context of this study the crucial question is whether the hypothesis of a quasi-autistic or of low-grade schizophrenic disturbance would help us to explain some of the violence spreading today.

Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.