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
If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead. — 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
If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself, too; if he can love only others, he cannot love at… — 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
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
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
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
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
Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We have faith in the potentialities of others, of ourselves, and of mankind because, and only to the degree to which, we… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in the experience… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I would say love is something everybody talks about, and the need for love is one of the most basic needs of… — 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
I would say that love today is a relatively rare phenomenon, that we have a great deal of sentimentality; we have a… — 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
If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem… — 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
...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. … For the man… — 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
“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
“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
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
“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
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Only in the love of those who do not serve a purpose, love begins to unfold.” — 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge. — Erich Fromm Copy Share
Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him… — Erich Fromm Copy Share
“Perhaps most trivial talk is a need to talk about oneself; hence, the never-ending subject of health and sickness, children, travel, successes, what one… — Erich Fromm Copy Share
