R.D. Laing Quotes
Top 61 wise famous quotes and sayings by R.D. Laing
R.D. Laing Famous Quotes & Sayings
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No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men.
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.
Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.
The universe was a vast machine yesterday, it is a hologram today. Who knows what intellectual rattle we'll be shaking tomorrow.
Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
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.
Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.
Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.
In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.
Being embodied as such is no insurance against feelings of hopelessness or meaningslessness. Beyond his body, he still has to know who he is.
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.
Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.
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.
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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.
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 know, I think I do not know.