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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
People have committed suicide because of their failure to realize the passions for love , power , fame , revenge . Cases… — 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
“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
“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
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
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
“Mature love is union under the condition of preserving one’s integrity, one’s individuality. Love is an active power in man; a power… — 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
“Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness… — 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
“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
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
“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
I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone… — 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
I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion. — 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 not something your heart falls into, but something that picks it up and sets it soaring. — 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
Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love."… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more… — 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
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
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
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
“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
The narcissistic, the domineering, the possessive woman can succeed in being a "loving" mother as long as the child is small. Only… — 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
“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 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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