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1133 quotes from Erich Fromm: 'Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.141, Open Road Media. Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever.
- The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. Erich Fromm. Business, Inner Peace, Insecurity.
- Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.
- The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
- Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. Erich Fromm. Effort, Greed, Needs.
Psychology as a science has its limitations, and, as the logical consequence of theology is mysticism, so the ultimate consequence of psychology is love. Collection of sourced quotations by Erich Fromm on love. Discover popular and famous love quotes by Erich Fromm.
“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.” ― Erich Fromm, quote from The Art of Loving. Copy text.
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. Erich Fromm. Love, Romantic, Faith. Erich Fromm (2013).
