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
Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead. — 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
“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
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
I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion. — 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
For [Karl] Marx it is socialist society which realizes "concretely" the religious principles of equality, brotherly love, and freedom. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love. Where this active concern is lacking,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic… — 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
“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
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
“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
“The assumption that the problem of love is the problem of an object , not the problem of a faculty . People… — 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
Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Erotic love, if it is love, has one premise. That I love from the essence of my being—and experience the other person… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I… — 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
“The faculty to think objectively is reason ; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility . To be objective, to… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“The child starts out by being attached to his mother as "the ground of all being." He feels helpless and needs the… — 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
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
“Not so much because many occupations would not permit of a loving attitude, but because the spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society… — 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… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal. — 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
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. — 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
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it. — 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
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