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To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche

by Erich Fromm

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Jan 25, 2015 05:18AM

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“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
― Erich Fromm

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“Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one “object” of love. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Yet, most people believe that love is constituted by the object, not by the faculty.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

tags: 1956, love

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“Man’s main task is to give birth to himself. ”
― Erich Fromm

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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

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“It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health.”
― Erich Fromm

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