“Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence: the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self. In spending his energy productively he increases his powers, he "burns without being consumed.“”

— Erich Fromm

Source: Man for Himself (1947), p.189

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German social psychologist and psychoanalyst 1900–1980

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