Famous Quotes by Erich Fromm

Below are famous quotes by Erich Fromm - US (German-born) psychologist (1900 - 1980).

Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you."

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

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

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.

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