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 activityenterpriseexpectation Change image and share on social
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. Erich Fromm beingloveoccur Change image and share on social
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' Erich Fromm immaturelovemature Change image and share on social
The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. Erich Fromm feelinsecurityperson Change image and share on social
The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have. Erich Fromm affluent Change image and share on social
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. Erich Fromm appealcultureessentially Change image and share on social
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man. Erich Fromm beautifulbiologicallycreate Change image and share on social
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Erich Fromm attachmentegotismenlarge Change image and share on social
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. Erich Fromm bitterdieidea Change image and share on social
