Erich Fromm

“Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'”

“If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?”

“Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.”

“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.”

“In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.”

“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.”

“We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.”

“There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.”

“Man always dies before he is fully born.”

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”

“Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.”

“To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.”

“Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.”

“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”