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BootinUp

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Thu Oct 23, 2025, 10:19 PM Oct 2025

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 Oct 2025 OP
From "The Sane Society." Jim__ Oct 2025 #1
Thanks. Will take a look at those. BootinUp Oct 2025 #2
That's MAGA to a T Martin Eden Oct 2025 #3

Jim__

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

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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