In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Quote by Erich Fromm
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In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
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Erich Fromm Quotes
- There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
- In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
- 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.
- The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
- The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
- There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
- 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.
- The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
- The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
- Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Best Quotes
- I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
- I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
- The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!
- Money: power at its most liquid.
- I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
- People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.
- We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
- The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.
- You must have love as the core it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.
- My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.