Quotes of Erich Fromm - somelinesforyou

“ The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ To be concentrated means to live fully in the present. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ To be concentrated means to live fully in the present. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as love. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Love, being dependent on the relative absence of narcissism, requires the development of humility, objectivity and reason. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Human history begins with man’s act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Greed is a bottomless bit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.' ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ ”

- Erich Fromm

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

- Erich Fromm

“ Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love ”

- Erich Fromm
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