This wording is widely credited to Jiddu Krishnamurti, but his Foundation Trust expressly says that it cannot authenticate the exact words. It documents similar ideas in his talks, which is different from establishing this sentence as a verbatim quotation.
“It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society” Widely attributed to Jiddu Krishnamurti; his Foundation Trust cannot confirm these exact words. Original wording and author remain unestablished.
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Exact wording unconfirmed by Krishnamurti Foundation Trust
Related printed credit
Wikiquote cites Mark Vonnegut’s The Eden Express (1975), p. 208
Wikiquote’s sourced entry ↗ points to a 1975 secondary credit; that citation does not identify a Krishnamurti recording or transcript for the exact line.
The exact author and originating English publication remain unconfirmed. The short identifying excerpt is not offered as a public-domain quotation.
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The Foundation places the popular line beside actual discussions of social conditioning, loneliness and psychological conflict. Those passages explain why it sounds consistent with Krishnamurti’s concerns, while the Foundation’s explicit caution prevents treating consistency of thought as proof of exact wording.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti spoke internationally about psychological conditioning, freedom and the observation of thought. Having rejected the spiritual authority prepared for him by the Theosophical movement, he urged people to examine experience without depending on a teacher or organization.
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Krishnamurti Foundation Trust. “Krishnamurti on Mental Health.” Attribution qualification and collected talk extracts. Accessed November 9, 2026.
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