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R.D. Laing quotes: Any experience of reality is indescribable! Any experience of reality is indescribable!
R.D. Laing quotes: If the blind must lead the blind, it is as wellthat the leader knows he is. If the blind must lead the blind, it is as well
that the leader knows he is.
R.D. Laing quotes: Where can you scream? It's a serious question: where can you go in society and scream? Where can you scream? It's a serious question: where can you go in society and scream?
R.D. Laing quotes: Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil. Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.
R.D. Laing quotes: Do not adjust your mind, the fault is in reality. Do not adjust your mind, the fault is in reality.
R.D. Laing quotes: We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
R.D. Laing quotes: 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. 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 quotes: No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic. No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.
R.D. Laing quotes: We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy. We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.
R.D. Laing quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: One cannot say everything at once. One cannot say everything at once.
R.D. Laing quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
R.D. Laing quotes: We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die. We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.
R.D. Laing quotes: Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life. Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
R.D. Laing quotes: Life is a sexually trasmitted disese. Life is a sexually trasmitted disese.
R.D. Laing quotes: What an interesting fingerlet me suck it.It's not an interesting fingertake it away. What an interesting finger
let me suck it.
It's not an interesting finger
take it away.
R.D. Laing quotes: No one has the answer: we are answer and question. No one has the answer: we are answer and question.
R.D. Laing quotes: Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction. Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.
R.D. Laing quotes: Few books today are forgivable. Few books today are forgivable.
R.D. Laing quotes: 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. 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 quotes: I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men. I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men.
R.D. Laing quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities. Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.
R.D. Laing quotes: In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen. In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.
R.D. Laing quotes: The universe was a vast machine yesterday, it is a hologram today. Who knows what intellectual rattle we'll be shaking tomorrow. 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 quotes: The square root of nothing. The square root of nothing.
R.D. Laing quotes: Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth. 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 quotes: There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
R.D. Laing quotes: Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment. Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.
R.D. Laing quotes: The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents. When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents.
R.D. Laing quotes: Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic. Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.
R.D. Laing quotes: Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible. Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.
R.D. Laing quotes: A mental healer may be a psychiatrist. A psychiatrist may or may not be a mental healer. A mental healer may be a psychiatrist. A psychiatrist may or may not be a mental healer.
R.D. Laing quotes: No one acts or experiences in a vacuum ... No one acts or experiences in a vacuum ...
R.D. Laing quotes: Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities. Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities.
R.D. Laing quotes: Experience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense. Experience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense.
R.D. Laing quotes: In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal. 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 quotes: Being embodied as such is no insurance against feelings of hopelessness or meaningslessness. Beyond his body, he still has to know who he is. 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 quotes: The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always. The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.
R.D. Laing quotes: Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable. Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.
R.D. Laing quotes: Beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie. Beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.
R.D. Laing quotes: Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that. 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 quotes: There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons. There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.
R.D. Laing quotes: The way out is through the door you came in. The way out is through the door you came in.
R.D. Laing quotes: Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.
R.D. Laing quotes: Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad. Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad.
R.D. Laing quotes: We live equally out of our bodies and out of our minds. We live equally out of our bodies and out of our minds.
R.D. Laing quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
R.D. Laing quotes: Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment. Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.
R.D. Laing quotes: I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not. I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not.
R.D. Laing quotes: Insanity a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. Insanity
a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
R.D. Laing quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient. The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient.
R.D. Laing quotes: Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

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