There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as lov… - Erich Fromm

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into, but is something that requires thought, knowledge, care, giving, and respect. And it is something that is rare and difficult to find in capitalism, which commodifies human activity.

The more man understands and masters nature the less he needs to use religion as a scientific explanation and as a magical device for controlling nature.