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Needs Quotes by Erich Fromm
- Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing;…
- I need you because I love you.
- Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.
- Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess. The truth is,…
- The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.
- All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.
- Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
- Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
- Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
- Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are standardized and can…
- To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security…
- Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says:…
- If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to…
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