"إن الحب الطفولي يسير على مبدأ "إنني أحب لأنني محبوب" أما الحب النرجسي فإنه يسير على مبدأ "إنني أحبك لأنني أحتاج إليك" أم الحب الناضِج فيقول: "إنني أح… - Erich Fromm

The pathetic superstition prevails that by knowing more and more facts one arrives at knowledge of reality. Hundreds of scattered and unrelated facts are dumped into the heads of students; their time and energy are taken up by learning more and more facts so that there is little left for thinking. To be sure, thinking without a knowledge of facts remains empty and fictitious; but “information” alone can be just as much of an obstacle to thinking as the lack of it.

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.

The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural and human world outside.