Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' - Erich Fromm 1 Share Now -
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 2 Share Now -
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. - Erich Fromm 3 Share Now -
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. - Erich Fromm 4 Share Now -
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. - Erich Fromm 5 Share Now -
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. - Erich Fromm 6 Share Now -
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. - Erich Fromm 7 Share Now -
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist. - Erich Fromm 8 Share Now -
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. - Erich Fromm 9 Share Now -
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? - Erich Fromm 10 Share Now -
