Erich Fromm
German - American philosopher and psychologist
Lived from: 1900 - 1980
Category: Psychologists | Philosophers Country: 
Germany
Born: 23 march 1900 Died: 18 march 1980
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Immature love says: ''I love you because I need you.'' Mature love says: ''I need you because I love you.''
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The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
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If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
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Authority is not a quality one person ''has,'' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
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Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
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Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
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In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
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In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
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Integrity simple means not violating one's own identity.
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Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
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Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
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Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination.
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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
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Love 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.
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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
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Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.
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Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
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Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
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