Erich Fromm

Man always dies before he is fully born…

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail…

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties…

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal…

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the…

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet…

Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need…

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most…

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two…

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art…

Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved…

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future…

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes…

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part…

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires…