“Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love”
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Erich Fromm 119
German social psychologist and psychoanalyst 1900–1980Related quotes

Variant: When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Source: Anna Karenina
Source: The Functions of the Executive (1938), p. 98-99, footnote

“Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.”
"L'Isolement", Méditations Poétiques (1820)

“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”