If I do not know that I do not know, I think I know. If I do not know that I know,… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
The human mind has to ask "Who, what, whence, whither, why am I?" And it is very doubtful if the human mind… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
If you have passion for what you do, the company you keep, the life you live, it will be reflected in whatever… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Conventions are convenient. It is inconvenient to say people are dead when they are alive, or alive when they have been buried,… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed,… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Before one goes through the gate one may not be aware there is a gate One may think there is a gate… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste our own sanity. We begin with the children.… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Our time has been distinguished, more than by anything else, by a mastery, a control, of the external world, and by an… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
