Erich Fromm ( 10 of 22 )
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable read more
We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of read more
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, read more
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.
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love read more
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our read more
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.
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which read more
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's read more
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.