"True guilt is guilt at the obligation one……" — R. D. Laing
"True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is."
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66 Quotes by R. D. Laing
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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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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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