"We all live under the constant threat of……" — R. D. Laing
"We all live under the constant threat of our own annihilation. Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved our capacity to live in relative adjustment to a civilization apparently driven to its own destruction."
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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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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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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
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If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.
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