We must remember that we are living in an age in which the ground is shifting and the foundations are shaking. I… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
The universe was a vast machine yesterday, it is a hologram today. Who knows what intellectual rattle we'll be shaking tomorrow. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
What we think is less than what we know; What we know is less than what we love; What we love is… — 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
When I go beyond a certain range it's outside of my direct horizon therefore I've got to rely on the writings and… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
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
What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Being embodied as such is no insurance against feelings of hopelessness or meaningslessness. Beyond his body, he still has to know who… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Our civilization represses not only "the instincts", not only sexuality, but any form of transcendence. Among one-dimensional men, it is not surprising… — 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
