“Where could we find an instance of cultural pathology which philosophy restored to health? If philosophy ever manifested itself as helpful, redeeming, or prophylactic, it was in a healthy culture. The sick, it made even sicker.”
Source: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks (posthumous), p. 27
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Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973), p. 395
Context: The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation; in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society — and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic. In the context of this study the crucial question is whether the hypothesis of a quasi-autistic or of low-grade schizophrenic disturbance would help us to explain some of the violence spreading today.

“There is a school of philosophy still in existence of which modern culture has lost sight.”
In these words Mr. A.P. Sinnett began his book, The Occult World, the first popular exposition of Theosophy, published thirty years ago.[1881]... Since then, many thousands have learned...yet to the majority its teachings are still unknown..
A Textbook of Theosophy (1912), Chapter One

“As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.”
Tears and Saints (1937)

Source: Russia Under The Bolshevik Regime (1994), p. 278

Address to Civil, Naval, Military and Air Force Officers of Pakistan Government, Karachi (11 October 1947)