"If I hazard a guess as to the……" — R. D. Laing
"If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another."
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66 Quotes by R. D. Laing
R. D. Laing has 66 quotes on this site.
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The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.
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From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces…
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We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.
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What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on…
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Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad.
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In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not.…
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The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men.…
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We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material…
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.
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If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know I know, I…
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What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than…
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Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of…
— Julian Huxley
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The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every…
— Lloyd deMause
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The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist…
— Francis of Assisi
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The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead…
— Bertrand Russell
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is…
— Ludwig von Mises
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To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and…
— Sigmund Freud
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How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or…
— Walter Inglis Anderson
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From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective…
— Ban Ki-moon
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Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the…
— Patrick Henry
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I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.
— Tilda Swinton
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