Erich Seligmann Fromm was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist.
Born: March 23, 1900, Frankfurt, Germany
Died: March 18, 1980, Switzerland
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Man always dies before he is fully born.
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one’s own self.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
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.
Love is a power which produces love.
