Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
Erich Fromm · From the chapter on the theory of love, the sentence that outlived the book.
Erich Fromm · From the chapter on the theory of love, the sentence that outlived the book.
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Erich Fromm · The source reads: “Self-love, in this sense, is the opposite of selfishness.” · Writing that to say "I love you" is to love all of humanity and oneself too, he adds that selfishness is only a greedy concern with oneself that comes from a lack of real self-love.
Erich Fromm · The source reads: “If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence, then any society which excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature.” · The sentence the whole book builds to, on its closing pages; the familiar form lifts the clause out of a longer sentence on what a loveless society must come to.
Erich Fromm · His definition of love as an activity rather than a feeling; the sentence continues "Where this active concern is lacking, there is no love."
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