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Any experience of reality is indescribable! — R.D. Laing

If the blind must lead the blind, it is as well
that the leader knows he is. — R.D. Laing

Where can you scream? It's a serious question: where can you go in society and scream? — R.D. Laing

Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil. — R.D. Laing

Do not adjust your mind, the fault is in reality. — R.D. Laing

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. — R.D. Laing

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know. — R.D. Laing

No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic. — R.D. Laing

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy. — R.D. Laing

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain. — R.D. Laing

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. — R.D. Laing

The human mind has to ask "Who, what, whence, whither, why am I?" And it is very doubtful if the human mind can answer any of these questions. — R.D. Laing

One cannot say everything at once. — R.D. Laing

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. — R.D. Laing

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. — R.D. Laing

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die. — R.D. Laing

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life. — R.D. Laing

Life is a sexually trasmitted disese. — R.D. Laing

What an interesting finger
let me suck it.
It's not an interesting finger
take it away. — R.D. Laing

No one has the answer: we are answer and question. — R.D. Laing

Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction. — R.D. Laing

Few books today are forgivable. — R.D. Laing

A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is 'depersonalized' in psychiatric jargon. — R.D. Laing

I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men. — R.D. Laing

If I could turn you on, if I could drive you out of your wretched mind, if I could tell you I would let you know. — R.D. Laing

Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities. — R.D. Laing

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen. — R.D. Laing

The universe was a vast machine yesterday, it is a hologram today. Who knows what intellectual rattle we'll be shaking tomorrow. — R.D. Laing

The square root of nothing. — R.D. Laing

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth. — R.D. Laing

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. — R.D. Laing

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment. — R.D. Laing

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. — R.D. Laing

To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning. — R.D. Laing

When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents. — R.D. Laing

Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic. — R.D. Laing

Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible. — R.D. Laing

A mental healer may be a psychiatrist. A psychiatrist may or may not be a mental healer. — R.D. Laing

No one acts or experiences in a vacuum ... — R.D. Laing

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities. — R.D. Laing

Experience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense. — R.D. Laing

In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal. — R.D. Laing

Being embodied as such is no insurance against feelings of hopelessness or meaningslessness. Beyond his body, he still has to know who he is. — R.D. Laing

The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always. — R.D. Laing

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable. — R.D. Laing

Beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie. — R.D. Laing

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that. — R.D. Laing

There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons. — R.D. Laing

The way out is through the door you came in. — R.D. Laing

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. — R.D. Laing

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad. — R.D. Laing

We live equally out of our bodies and out of our minds. — R.D. Laing

If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies. — R.D. Laing

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. — R.D. Laing

Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment. — R.D. Laing

I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not. — R.D. Laing

Insanity
a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. — R.D. Laing

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2. — R.D. Laing

If I do not know that I do not know, I think I know.
If I do not know that I know, I think I do not know. — R.D. Laing

The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient. — R.D. Laing

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. — R.D. Laing