Erich Fromm

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."

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

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

"Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted."

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

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."

"Man always dies before he is fully born."

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

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

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

"The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent."

"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 the unfolding of his powers."

"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."

"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."