12 quotes
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
The Art of Loving (1956)
Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.
Man for Himself (1947)
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
The Art of Loving (1956)
Selfishness and self-love, far from being identical, are actually opposites.
Man for Himself (1947)
Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in themselves.
The Art of Loving (1956)
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.
The Art of Loving (1956)
It is considered immoral to keep one "love" partner beyond a relatively short period of time. "Love" is short-lived sexual desire, which must be satisfied immediately.
The Sane Society (1955)
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
The Sane Society (1955)
Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced only in freedom and never as a result of compulsion.
The Art of Loving (1956)
Only if he [man] develops his reason and his love, if he can experience the natural and the social world in a human way, can he feel at home, secure in himself, and the master of his life.
The Sane Society (1955)
I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.
Art of Loving (1956)
I believe that one can and must hope for the collective regaining of a mental health that is characterized by the capacity to love and to create...
Credo (1965)