"Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an……" — R. D. Laing
"Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world."
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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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If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing…
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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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More Adjustment Quotes
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The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.
— J. J. Abrams
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Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it…
— Juliette Binoche
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The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and…
— Vince Cable
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A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity…
— James Allen
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I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at the top to make…
— Nick Clegg
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Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley…
— John Playfair
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Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the…
— Leon Battista Alberti
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You can win tournaments when you're mechanical, but golf is a game of emotion and adjustment. If you're not aware…
— Jack Nicklaus
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We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical…
— Eric Hoffer
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Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible…
— Zhuangzi
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