When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents. — R. D. Laing Children Copy Share Image
If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know I know, I think I… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Where can you scream? It's a serious question: where can you go in society and scream? — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment. — R. D. Laing Breakdown Copy Share Image
Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction. — R. D. Laing Abstraction Copy Share Image
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that. — R. D. Laing Child Copy Share Image
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. — R. D. Laing Illness 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… — R. D. Laing Live in the present Copy Share Image
A lot of the time I'm in the present, and I'm thinking about the past or scheming about the future and missing… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world -… — R. D. Laing Alienation Copy Share Image
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being… — 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… — R. D. Laing Change Copy Share Image
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… — R. D. Laing Existence Copy Share Image
The fountain has not played itself out, the Flame still shines, the River still flows, the Spring still bubbles forth, the Light… — 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 Business 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
I, for instance, regard any particular man as finite, as one who has had a beginning and who will have an end.… — R. D. Laing Body Copy Share Image
What we take anything to be profoundly affects how we go about describing it, and how we describe something profoundly affects how… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated… — R. D. Laing Death Copy Share Image
A psychiatrist who professes to be a healer of souls, but who keeps people asleep, treats them for waking up, and drugs… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic. — R. D. Laing Cold Copy Share Image
Experience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient. — R. D. Laing Fellow travelers 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
Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities. — R. D. Laing Illness Copy Share Image
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. — R. D. Laing Despair Copy Share Image
A mental healer may be a psychiatrist. A psychiatrist may or may not be a mental healer. — R. D. Laing Healer Copy Share Image
I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men. — R. D. Laing Experience Copy Share Image
The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always. — R. D. Laing Absolution Copy Share Image
Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet,… — R. D. Laing Baby Copy Share Image
Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an… — R. D. Laing Behavior Copy Share Image
