Erich Fromm Quotes

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Erich Fromm

Love, Immature, Says

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Erich Fromm

Selfish, Others, Themselves

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

Mom, Love, Mother

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Erich Fromm

Person, Greed, Effort

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Erich Fromm

Mother's Day, Love, Peace

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

Life, Love, Morning

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Erich Fromm

Love, Two, Become

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Erich Fromm

Love, Human, Problem

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Erich Fromm

Insecurity, Able, Ourselves

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, Age, Society

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
Erich Fromm

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Erich Fromm

Problem, Existence, Animal

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
Erich Fromm

Society, Men, Future

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, Person, Others

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm

Courage, Creativity, Requires

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
Erich Fromm

Life, Living, Act

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, Important, Give

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
Erich Fromm

Die, Idea, Bitter

The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Erich Fromm

Insecurity, Person, Able

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Erich Fromm

Faith, Person, Others

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
Erich Fromm

God, Problem, Dead

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
Erich Fromm

Social, Mask, Ladder

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
Erich Fromm

Die, Before, Means

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, Sleep, Nothing

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
Erich Fromm

Cannot, Often, Deeply

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: March 23, 1900

Died: March 18, 1980

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