Erich Fromm Quotes

Immature love says: `I love you because I need you.` Mature love says `I need you because I love you.`

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?

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

We 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.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

Sanity - that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

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.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you`ll live as you`ve never lived before.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.