Author of quotes: Erich Fromm. Page 15

Very often if the masculine qualities in the character of men is weak, because emotionally and mentally he was still a child, he tries to fill this gap, by emphasising the male role in sexual relationships.

The desire to live frodeno every organism, and man can't not want to live, regardless of what he likes to think about it.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem he must solve and it is impossible to go anywhere. He can't go back to pre-human state of harmony with nature and have to develop your mind until you become the master of nature and himself.

Selfishness is a symptom of lack of self-love. Who does not love himself, always worried about himself.

Life has no other meaning than what man himself gives it, revealing their strength, by living productively.

... know your authentic desires is much harder than it seems to most of us; it is one of the most difficult problems of human existence. We are desperately trying to get away from this problem by taking a standard goal for their own.

Puppy love follows the principle: "I love because I love". Mature love follows the principle: "I like you because I love you". Immature love says "I love you because I need you." Mature love says "I need you because I love you."

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth, the problem is that dead people.