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Fromm, Erich Pinchas(Fromm, Erich)
1900 - Erich Fromm, born on the 23rd of March in Frankfurt, Germany. His father was a business man and, according to Erich, rather moody. His mother was frequently depressed. In other words, like quite a few of the people we've looked at, his childhood wasn't very happy.
1914 - The second event was even larger: World War I. At the tender age of 14, he saw the extremes that nationalism could go to.
1922 - To finish his story, he received his PhD from Heidelberg and began a career as a psychotherapist.
1934 - He moved to the U.S., a popular time for leaving Germany, and settled in New York City, where he met many of the other great refugee thinkers that gathered there, including Karen Horney, with whom he had an affair.
1980 - Died on the 18th of March in Switzerland.
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- "Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality."
- "Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."
- "Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self."
- "Immature love says:'I love you because I need you.'Mature love says'I need you because I love you.'"
- "Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies?"
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