KM
Karl Menninger
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Quotes by Karl Menninger
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Money-giving is a very good criterion of a person's mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.
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Love is the basic need of human nature, for without it, life is disrupted emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically
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The very word, “sin,” which seems to have disappeared, was once a proud word. It was once a strong word, an ominous and serious word. … But the word went away. It has almost disappeared — the word, along with the notion. Why? Doesn’t anyone sin anymore? Doesn’t anyone believe in sin?
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The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, a priori, abnormal.