“Only in the love of those who do not serve a purpose, love begins to unfold.” — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Love is not something your heart falls into, but something that picks it up and sets it soaring. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with -… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. — 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
While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either. — 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. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The only way of full knowledge lies in the act of love; this act transcends thought, it transcends words. It is the… — 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
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
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
To be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Love is the only way of knowledge, which in the act of union answers my quest. In the act of loving, of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Love is active penetration of the other person, in which my desire to know is stilled by union. In the act of… — 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, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but moving, growing, working together; even when there is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but a moving, growing, working together; even whether there… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess.… — 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
“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
“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
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. — 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
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Loving becomes, and the ability to love, becomes one of the most important things in life. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to… — 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
