“Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.”

— Erich Fromm

Source: Man for Himself (1947), Ch. 3 "Human Nature and Character

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German social psychologist and psychoanalyst 1900–1980

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