Erich Fromm - Quotes, Citations, Ideas...
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Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you'.
Erich Fromm
If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.
Erich Fromm
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm
The intensity and excitement which accompanies moments of infatuation is frequently relative to the degree of loneliness and isolation which has been previously experienced.
Erich Fromm
Few parents have the courage and independence to care more for their children's happiness than for their success.
Erich Fromm
Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.
Erich Fromm
Love is a power which produces love.
Erich Fromm
Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.
Erich Fromm
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
Erich Fromm
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Erich Fromm
Indeed the alienated person finds it almost impossible to remain by himself, because he is seized by the panic of experiencing nothingness.
Erich Fromm
Man does not suffer so much from poverty today as he suffers from the fact that he has become a cog in a large machine, an automaton, that his life has become empty and lost its meaning.
Erich Fromm
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Erich Fromm
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
Erich Fromm
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
Erich Fromm
Man’s main task is to give birth to himself.
Erich Fromm
Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.
Erich Fromm
Equality today means sameness, rather than oneness.
Erich Fromm
We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.
Erich Fromm
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
Erich Fromm