If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. – Erich Fromm
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. – Erich Fromm
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
We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. – Erich Fromm