Author: Erich Fromm

Quotes

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

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

- Erich Fromm

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

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

- Erich Fromm

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.

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.

- Erich Fromm

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

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

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

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

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

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

- Erich Fromm

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

- Erich Fromm

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

- Erich Fromm

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.'

- Erich Fromm

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