What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. - Erich Fromm

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

The more man understands and masters nature the less he needs to use religion as a scientific explanation and as a magical device for controlling nature.

By narcissism is meant ceasing to have an authentic interest in the outside world but instead an intense attachment to oneself, to one’s own group, clan, religion, nation, race, etc. — with consequent serious distortions of rational judgment. In general, the need for narcissistic satisfaction derives from the necessity to compensate for material and cultural poverty.