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Erich Fromm was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, on March 23, 1900. He fled the Nazi regime in 1934 and settled in the United States. He was one of the founders of The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City and was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. He died in Muralto, Switzerland, on March 18, 1980.

Some of his most famous works include:

* Escape from Freedom (1941)
* Man for Himself (1947)
* The Art of Loving (1956)
* The Sane Society (1955)
* To Have or to Be? (1976)

Fromm's work has been influential in a number of fields, including psychology, sociology, philosophy, and theology. He is considered one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century.

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.

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