19 Quotations by R. D. Laing
- 1. Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human being ...
- 2. Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as som ...
- 3. From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby i ...
- 4. If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.
- 5. In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our s ...
- 6. Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.
- 7. Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
- 8. Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and rene ...
- 9. Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd ...
- 10. Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad.
- 11. Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
- 12. The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom e ...
- 13. The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person inve ...
- 14. The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notic ...
- 15. There is no such "condition" as "schizophrenia," but the label is a social fact and the social fact ...
- 16. We are all murderers and prostitutes -- no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belong ...
- 17. We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spirit ...
- 18. We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only w ...
- 19. Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
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