"We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to……" — R. D. Laing
"We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt."
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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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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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Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,…
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True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as…
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I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would…
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I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.
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I always said if it gets to a point where I really want a child, I would adopt; kids are…
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Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.
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I want to get married again and have kids and even adopt.
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People want to be liked by other people, so they adopt other people's standards, but for me, my standard had…
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I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And…
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If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what…
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Never adopt an attitude of indifference, for if you do you will suffer for it. The weight will grow heavier…
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