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 Age Copy Share Image
If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible. — R. D. Laing Child Copy Share Image
The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families… — R. D. Laing 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
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
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
In certain cases, a man blind from birth may have an operation performed which gives him his sight. The result: frequently misery,… — 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"… — R. D. Laing 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
