Destroying ourselves Quotes by R. D. Laing

To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be…

— R. D. Laing

We must remember that we are living in an age in which the ground is shifting and the foundations are shaking. I cannot answer…

— R. D. Laing

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is…

— R. D. Laing

Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed, our behavior…

— R. D. Laing

How do we define, how do we describe, how do we explain and/or understand ourselves? What sort of creatures do we take ourselves to…

— 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…

— R. D. Laing

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we…

— R. D. Laing

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.

— R. D. Laing

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are…

— R. D. Laing

The schizophrenic may indeed be mad. He is mad. He is not ill. I have been told by people who have been through the…

— R. D. Laing

What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism -- can we…

— R. D. Laing

From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The…

— R. D. Laing