"He Cannot Help Doubting Himself..."

“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet ‘for sale’, who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence – briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing – cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society. He cannot help doubting himself and his own convictions, if not his sanity.”

- Erich Fromm

"When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity;

since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the

madness on which the whole world happens to agree."

  - George Bernard Shaw