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BootinUp

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Thu Oct 23, 2025, 10:19 PM 15 hrs ago

Psychologist and Philosopher Erich Fromm on pathologies



“The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”

— Erich Fromm
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Psychologist and Philosopher Erich Fromm on pathologies (Original Post) BootinUp 15 hrs ago OP
From "The Sane Society." Jim__ 14 hrs ago #1
Thanks. Will take a look at those. BootinUp 14 hrs ago #2
That's MAGA to a T Martin Eden 7 hrs ago #3

Jim__

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1. From "The Sane Society."
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 11:27 PM
14 hrs ago

Wikiquotes has some other interesting quotes from that book here. For instance,

A relatively primitive village in which there are still real feasts, common artistic shared expressions, and no literacy at all—is more advanced culturally and more healthy mentally than our educated, newspaper-reading radio-listening culture.
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