"The truth brings with it a great measure……" — R. D. Laing
"The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always."
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66 Quotes by R. D. Laing
R. D. Laing has 66 quotes on this site.
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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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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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More Absolution Quotes
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There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood…
— Frank Sinatra
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Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of baptism,…
— Martin Chemnitz
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Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility.
— Laura Schlessinger
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Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee…
— Michael Foley
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Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at once smart and…
— Brian Evenson
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I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.
— E L Doctorow
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It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines,…
— Lord Byron
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Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
— Germaine Greer
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When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
— Frank Sinatra
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For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
— Thomas Hobbes
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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
— Oscar Wilde
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