All R. D. Laing Quotes
- Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years. Fellow
- The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient. Fellow
- The universe was a vast machine yesterday, it is a hologram today. Who knows what intellectual rattle we'll be shaking tomorrow. Hologram
- The individual in the ordinary circumstances of living may feel more unreal than real; in a literal sense, more dead than alive; precariously differentiated from… Alive
- We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy. All
- We live equally out of our bodies and out of our minds. Bodies
- A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric… Body
- Man as seen as an organism or man as seen as a person discloses different aspects of the human reality to the investigator. Both are… Alert
- I, for instance, regard any particular man as finite, as one who has had a beginning and who will have an end. He has been… Any
- Being embodied as such is no insurance against feelings of hopelessness or meaningslessness. Beyond his body, he still has to know who he is. Beyond
- 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… Change
- The statesmen of the world who boast and threaten that they have Doomsday weapons are far more dangerous, and far more estranged from 'reality',than many… Affixed
- Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. Disease
- Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. Adjustment
- 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… Avoid
- 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… Assume
- 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… Aging
- We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one… All
- 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. All
- Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk… Along
- 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. Discuss
- We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. Destroying
- Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. Achieved
- Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. Despair
- Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that. Children