The heroes of ancient Greece wept more often than our silly, sentimental modern women. They knew it did no good to hold it back. Our ideal is the impassive courage of a statue. Unnecessary. Be sad and then you'll soon be over it.

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ERICH LEINSDORF As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.
ERICH FROMM Every bar mitzvah I ever went to was, 'Here comes 'Oh, What a Night.'
ERICH BERGEN The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become r...
ERICH FROMM Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved."
Mature love follows the pri...
ERICH FROMM A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has...
ERICH FROMM The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.
ERICH SEGAL The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissist...
ERICH FROMM If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what th...
ERICH FROMM Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.
ERICH HONECKER We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put throu...
ERICH HOEBER The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young m...
ERICH AUERBACH Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love...
ERICH FROMM Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.'
Mature love says: 'I need you because I lo...
ERICH FROMM That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the mir...
ERICH FROMM The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically...
ERICH FROMM Man's main task is to give birth to himself.
ERICH FROMM Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
ERICH FROMM Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the sep...
ERICH FROMM Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational p...
ERICH FROMM Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not kn...
ERICH FROMM There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.
ERICH FROMM Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love yo...
ERICH FROMM Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
ERICH SEGAL True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checke...
ERICH SEGAL Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
ERICH FROMM There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and ex...
ERICH FROMM As we can.
ERICH FROMM

The heroes of ancient Greece wept more often than our silly, sentimental modern women. They knew it did no good to hold it back. Our ideal is the impassive courage of a statue. Unnecessary. Be sad and then you'll soon be over it.

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The heroes of ancient Greece wept more often than our silly, sentimental modern women. They knew it did no good to hold it back. Our ideal is the impassive courage of a statue. Unnecessary. Be sad and then you'll soon be over it.

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