艾瑞克·弗洛姆
社會心理學家和哲學家
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
過去的危險是人們成為奴隸。未來的危險是人們可能成為機器人。
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.
人一生中主要的任務(wù)是誕生自己，成為他潛在的樣子。他努力的最重要成果是他自己的個性。
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
創(chuàng)造力需要放下確定性的勇氣。
The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.
獨處的能力就是愛的能力。這對你來說可能看起來矛盾，但并非如此。這是一個存在的真理：只有那些能夠獨處的人，才能愛，分享，進入另一個人最深的核心——而不占有對方，不依賴對方，不將對方物化，不對對方上癮。
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'
不成熟的愛說：'我愛你因為我需要你。'成熟的愛說：'我需要你因為我愛你。'
The main task in life is to give birth to ourselves, to become what we potentially are.
人生的主要任務(wù)是誕生自己，成為我們潛在的樣子。