Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Quote by Erich Fromm
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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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Erich Fromm Quotes
- Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
- 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.
- In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
- Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
- Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
- The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
- Man always dies before he is fully born.
- 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.
- Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
Best Quotes
- I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that.
- Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verandas waiting for the 'southerly buster' - the thunderstorm that would break the heat and leave the air cool enough to allow sleep.
- The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.
- You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.
- The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.
- The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
- I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.
- The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.
- The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
- No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.