Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.
Erich FrommIn erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only tolerate, she must wish and support the child's separation.
Erich FrommThe history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.
Erich Fromm