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
- 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.
- The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
- The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
- The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
- The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
- Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
- Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
- If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
- 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
- Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
- One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
- Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
- I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.
- Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
- People living deeply have no fear of death.
- I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
- I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
- My sisters have been baptized and my dad is a deacon at his church now. Sadly my mother passed away but what I can say is that the Jehovah Witnesses took very good care of her up until she died.