To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Love is the productive form of relatedness to others and to oneself. It implies responsibility, care, respect. If it isn't productive and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Psychology as a science has its limitations, and, as the logical consequence of theology is mysticism, so the ultimate consequence of psychology… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a “standing in,” not a “falling for.” In the most general way,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I believe that none can "save" his fellow man by making a choice for him. To help him, he can indicate the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Love is not easy. All great religions postulate love as one of the greatest accomplishments. If it were that easy, or as… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Equality today means “sameness,” rather than “oneness.” It is the sameness of abstractions, of the men who work in the same jobs,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“To be fully awake is the condition for not being bored, or being boring—and indeed, not to be bored or boring is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“The question is the same, for it springs from the same ground: the human situation, the conditions of the human existence. The… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“To love somebody is not just a strong feeling—it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
To love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one individual,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Among the many forms of alienation, the most frequent one is alienation in language. If I express a feeling with a word,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“The teacher is taught by his students, the actor is stimulated by his audience, the psychoanalyst is cured by his patient—provided they… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Care and concern imply another aspect of love; that of responsibility. Today responsibility is often meant to denote duty, something imposed upon… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“A second premise behind the attitude that there is nothing to be learned about love is the assumption that the problem of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. Modern man's happiness consists… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Love is possible only if two persons communicate with each other from the center of their existence, hence if each one of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“I knew that we counted little in comparison with the universe, I knew that we were nothing; but to be so immeasurably… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I believe that the experience of love is the most human and humanizing act that it is given to man to enjoy… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Love is hot a higher power which descends upon mn nor a duty which is imposed upon him; it is his own… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“It is hardly necessary to stress the fact that the ability to love as an act of giving depends on the character development of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“The wealth of data to be found in social and political life. The belief that people do not want to make sacrifices is notoriously… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
By equality, one once understood equality in the very same sense in which the Bible speaks of equality: that we are all equal, inasmuch… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
