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Erich Fromm

German-American sociologist and psychoanalyst

1900–1980

16 quotes, most often on Love, Politics and Life & Death.

Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you.’
The Art of Loving (1956), Ch. 2
- Love
To 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
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.
- 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 Art of Loving (1956)
- Love
Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.
Man for Himself (1947), Ch. 3
- Love
- Responsibility
Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced only in freedom and never as a result of compulsion.
The Art of Loving (1956)
- Envy
- Love
It is true that selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Man for Himself (1947), Ch. 4
- Love

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