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
- In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
- The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
- There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
- The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
- Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
- The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
- 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.
- Man always dies before he is fully born.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
- Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.
- I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
- The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
- If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
- Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
- It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.
- Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product it's an understanding of human nature.
- Choice of words can be as revealing as a set of fingerprints.
- We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.