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Erich Fromm (Psychologist)

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
— Erich Fromm love
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
— Erich Fromm loving
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
— Erich Fromm love
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
— Erich Fromm action
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
— Erich Fromm love
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
— Erich Fromm love
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
— Erich Fromm courage
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
— Erich Fromm future
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
— Erich Fromm security
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
— Erich Fromm life
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
— Erich Fromm dreams
Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
— Erich Fromm body
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
— Erich Fromm power
Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.
— Erich Fromm thought
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
— Erich Fromm man
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
— Erich Fromm love
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
— Erich Fromm love
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
— Erich Fromm education
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
— Erich Fromm faith
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
— Erich Fromm existence
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 self
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
— Erich Fromm life
As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
— Erich Fromm end
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
— Erich Fromm dreams
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
— Erich Fromm live
Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says I need you because I love you.
— Erich Fromm love

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