The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
I am quite sure that a good number of "cures" of psychotics consist in the fact that the patient has decided, for… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and… — R. D. Laing Breakdown 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… — R. D. Laing Life 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 Inspirational 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 Behavior Copy Share Image
The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should… — R. D. Laing Data 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 Computers 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
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 Brainwashing Copy Share Image
Freud was a hero. He descended to the "Underworld" and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a… — 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… — R. D. Laing Deeds Copy Share Image
We are born into a world where alienation awaits us. We are potentially men, but are in an alienated state, and this… — R. D. Laing Alienation 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… — 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 Body 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
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. — R. D. Laing Alienation Copy Share Image
Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is… — R. D. Laing Body Copy Share Image
Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. — R. D. Laing Absurd Copy Share Image
In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is… — R. D. Laing Action 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 Abandonment 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
