Erich Fromm on Love
This week turns out to be a surely rare two-in-one wisdom week as I completely randomly remembered this excellent quote from Erich Fromm, German-American psychologist, sociologist and philosopher. I don't agree with everything he proposes in the 1956 book...
I take that compliment to heart kind sir!
This citation always reminded me of so many people whom I've witnessed in life go from one relationship to another like 'nothing', and to me it was always completely bewildering how that could even hypothetically be possible if they had genuine feelings f...
This sentence reminds me of
Rainer Maria Rilke’s letter to a young poet (Franz Xaver Kappus) from May 14th 1904 (the whole letter deserves to be read): “To love is good too: since love is difficult. For one person to love another: perhaps that is the most difficult thing granted us,...
Wonderful! 🙏🧡
Despite being familiar with Rilke, I had never read this letter before. It certainly arrives at the same teachings, with a comparable sensibility to Fromm. Fromm's conclusions in the book of young (immature) vs old (mature love) were summed up as 'I love ...