Erich Fromm Quotes About Sanity
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The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
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Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.
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That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
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Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.
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