Quotes by R. D. Laing

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.close quote - R. D. Laing

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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.close quote - R. D. Laing
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.close quote - R. D. Laing

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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.close quote - R. D. Laing
We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.close quote - R. D. Laing
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.close quote - R. D. Laing
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.close quote - R. D. Laing
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.close quote - R. D. Laing

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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.close quote - R. D. Laing
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.close quote - R. D. Laing
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.close quote - R. D. Laing
Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.close quote - R. D. Laing
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.close quote - R. D. Laing

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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.close quote - R. D. Laing

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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.close quote - R. D. Laing


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