“I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the 'growth' of man.”

About Erich Fromm

1900 – 1980

German-born psychoanalyst and social philosopher, author of 'The Art of Loving' (1956) and 'Escape from Freedom' (1941).

“In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.”

“Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it.”

“What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.”

“Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.”

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.”

“Your first love has no beginning or end.”

“Learn to know thy heart, And, as the times, so let thy manners change, For by the law of change a new God rules.”

“We ask the Church to sacrifice with the people for social change, for justice, and for love of brother.”

“I love those reformations that prevent revolutions, by keeping pace with the gradual progress of reason and knowledge.”