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Quotes by Erich Fromm

Love is active penetration of the other person, in which my desire to know is stilled by union. In the act of fusion I know you, I know myself, I know everybody - and I "know" nothing.

Erich Fromm : German psychoanalyst & writer
Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
Source: The Art of Loving
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Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

Erich Fromm : German psychoanalyst & writer
Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
 
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Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love”

Erich Fromm : German psychoanalyst & writer
Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
 
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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.

Erich Fromm : German psychoanalyst & writer
Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
 
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Just as a child can never return to the mother's womb physically, so it can never reverse, psychically, the process of individuation. Attempts to do so necessarily assume the character of submission, in which the basic contradiction between authority and the child who submits to it is never eliminated. Submission is not the only way of avoiding aloneness and anxiety. The other way, the only one which is productive and does not end in an insoluble conflict, is that of spontaneous relationship to man and nature, a relationship that connects the individual with the world without eliminating his individuality. This kind of relationship - the foremost expressions of which are love and productive work - are rooted in the integration and strength of the total personality and are therefore subject to the very limits that exist for the growth of the self.

Erich Fromm : German psychoanalyst & writer
Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
Source: Escape from Freedom
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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.

Erich Fromm : German psychoanalyst & writer
Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
 
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Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.

Erich Fromm : German psychoanalyst & writer
Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
Source: Teaching Photography: Tools for the Imaging Educator
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Only in the love of those who do not serve a purpose, love begins to unfold.

Erich Fromm : German psychoanalyst & writer
Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
 
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Opposition is a category of man's mind, not in itself an element of reality.

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Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
 
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Equality today means sameness rather than oneness.

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Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
 
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