Best R. D. Laing Sayings
- Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life. Depends
- There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. Condition
- Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which… Carried
- The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. Behavior
- Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A… All
- Life is a sexually transmitted disease. Disease
- Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil. Discloses
- Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source… Adequate
- Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness,… Any
- In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensive… Apprehensive
- Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone… Anyone
- The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly… Absurd
- We all live under the constant threat of our own annihilation. Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved our capacity to… Achieved
- Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable. Avoidable
- What we think is less than what we know; What we know is less than what we love; What we love is so much less… Extent
- A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university… Admitted