"Pain in this life is not avoidable, but……" — R. D. Laing
"Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable."
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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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All too often a family’s spending is governed more by their yearning than by their earning. They somehow believe that…
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If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if…
— Alfred Korzybski
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The experience of oppressed people is that the living of one’s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers…
— Marilyn Frye
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There is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may…
— B. C. Forbes
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Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments…
— Shalom Auslander
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No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest…
— Frank Dobson
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Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship.…
— Karl Popper
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Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the…
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