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

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About Erich Fromm

Portrait of Erich Fromm

Erich Seligmann Fromm (, German: [ˈeːʁɪç ˈfʁɔm]; March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the United States. He was one of the founders of the...

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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.

Man's main task is to give birth to himself.

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.

Rather than be confronted with an overwhelming proof of the limitations of our understanding, we accuse the dreams of not making sense.

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

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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

—Samuel Johnson

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Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

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Truly powerful people don’t explain why they want respect. They simply don’t engage someone who doesn’t give it to them.

—Sherry Argov in Why Men Love Bitches

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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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