02UndatedThe quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.Erich Fromm / quote ↗
03UndatedOnly the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.Erich Fromm / quote ↗
04UndatedLove 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.Erich Fromm / quote ↗
08UndatedIf it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself since I am a human being too.Erich Fromm / quote ↗
09UndatedLove is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.Erich Fromm / quote ↗
10UndatedWho 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 / quote ↗
11UndatedImmature love says "I love you because I need you." Mature love says "I need you because I love you."Erich Fromm / quote ↗
12UndatedThe 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 / quote ↗
13UndatedFree man is by necessity insecure thinking man is by necessity uncertain.Erich Fromm / quote ↗
14UndatedI think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is they would say if they are honest that it is a big department store with new things every week - all the money to buy them and maybe a little more than the neighbours.Erich Fromm / quote ↗
16UndatedHuman beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEINGHAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even peopleBEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging, sharing with other peopleErich Fromm / quote ↗
17UndatedWe 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 / quote ↗
18UndatedBoth dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.Erich Fromm / quote ↗
19UndatedMother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.Erich Fromm / quote ↗
20UndatedIn love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.Erich Fromm / quote ↗
22UndatedThe capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.Erich Fromm / quote ↗
24UndatedWhy should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?Erich Fromm / quote ↗
