Erich Fromm Quotes

‘Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.’ – Erich Fromm

‘Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.” – Erich Fromm

‘Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.’ – Erich Fromm

‘Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.’ – Erich Fromm

‘Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.’ – Erich Fromm

‘In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.’ – Erich Fromm

‘Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.’ – Erich Fromm

‘The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.’ – Erich Fromm

‘There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.’ – Erich Fromm

‘Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.’ – Erich Fromm