Q0220
Erich Fromm
A verified English rendering from the curated archive.
English
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Source context
This English passage is associated with The Art of Loving (1956), within the tradition of Humanistic Psychoanalysis. The wording below is a verified rendering prepared for careful reading rather than a claim of unique translation authority.
A short reading
Read in the register of love, the sentence asks the reader to test an assumption rather than to collect a slogan. In Erich Fromm's wider work, similar claims are usually offered as prompts for judgment: what would have to be true for the sentence to hold, and what would follow if it did?
How to cite this quotation
APA: Erich Fromm. (n.d.). Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. In Philosophy Blind Box. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0220
MLA: Erich Fromm. “Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer….” Philosophy Blind Box, https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0220.
Chicago: Erich Fromm. “Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer….” Philosophy Blind Box. Accessed 2026. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0220.