Falsification 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