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

~Erich Fromm

Topics: Acquired Deserved Love Love Is Mother Need Peace

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

~Erich Fromm

Topics: Because Immature Love Love You Mature Need Says You I Love I Love You

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

~Erich Fromm

Topics: Effort Endless Ever Greed Need Person Pit Reaching Satisfaction Satisfy Which Without

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Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

~Erich Fromm

Topics: Capable Either Incapable Loving Others Persons Selfish Themselves

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

~Erich Fromm

Topics: Became Become Danger Future May Men Past Robots Slaves

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The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

~Erich Fromm

Topics: Able Feel Insecurity Must Ourselves Secure Set Task Tolerate

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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

~Erich Fromm

Topics: Certainties Courage Creativity Go Let Go Requires

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

~Erich Fromm

Topics: Am Lose Then Who I Am

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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

Topics: Become Birth Effort Give He Himself His Important Life Main Man Most Own Personality Potentially Product Task The Most Important

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There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

~Erich Fromm

Topics: Acted Contains Destructive Envy Feeling Guise Hate Indignation Moral Much Out Perhaps Permits Phenomenon Virtue Which

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: March 23rd, 1900

Died: March 18th, 1980

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