We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake. - Erich Fromm. View more images...

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. - Erich Fromm. View more images...

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. - Erich Fromm. View more images...

Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world based on human solidarity and justice, only when he can feel rooted in the experience of universal brotherliness, will he have tr - Erich Fromm. View more images...

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' - Erich Fromm. View more images...

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. - Erich Fromm. View more images...

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers. - Erich Fromm. View more images...

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. - Erich Fromm. View more images...

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. - Erich Fromm. View more images...

I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me. - Erich Fromm. View more images...

A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense. - Erich Fromm. View more images...

Infantile love follows the principle: 'I love because I am loved.'
Mature love follows the principle: 'I am loved because I love.'
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.'
Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.' - Erich Fromm. View more images...

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. - Erich Fromm. View more images...

Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less. - Erich Fromm. View more images...

Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man. - Erich Fromm. View more images...