For despite what some people say, love is not only a sweet falling bound to come and quickly go away.
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Erich Fromm
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Escape from Freedom
Greatness and Limitations of Freud's Thought
Love, Sexuality and Matriarchy: About Gender
Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics
On Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying No to Power
Psychoanalysis and Religion
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
The Art of Being
The Art of Loving
The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology
The Sane Society
To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.
Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love. Where this active concern is lacking, there is no love.
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
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.
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
Who 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.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
Man always dies before he is fully born.
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.