Erich Fromm Quotes About Sanity

Quotes about: Sanity

• 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.

  Erich Fromm

  Ideas, Numbers, Culture

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.12, Open Road Media

• That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

  Erich Fromm

  People, Doe, Sanity

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.74, Open Road Media

• Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

  Erich Fromm

  Sanity, Conventional, Frame Of Reference

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Greatness and Limitations of Freud's Thought”, p.1897, Open Road Media

• 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.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Order, Giving

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.74, Open Road Media

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