Toggle navigation
Home
Topics
Authors
Professions
Picture Quotes
Users
Join Us Now!
Login
R D Laing Quotes
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
~ R. D. Laing
Achieved
Alienation
Beings
Destiny
Human
Human Beings
Only
Our
Outrageous
Present
Violence
design
copy
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
Children
Curiosity
Easily
Get
Give
Imagination
Innate
Love
Them
To Love
Up
You
design
copy
Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.
~ R. D. Laing
Along
Climbs
Creative
Creative People
Explore
Greater
Help
Just
Lane
Mental
More
Mountain
Other
People
Risk
Someone
Territories
Than
Village
Walks
Who
design
copy
Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
~ R. D. Laing
Carried
Descended
Freud
He
Head
Hero
Him
His
Met
Stark
Stone
Terrors
Theory
Turned
Underworld
Which
design
copy
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
I Think
Know
Think
design
copy
Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
~ R. D. Laing
Adjustment
Insane
Insanity
Perfectly
Rational
World
design
copy
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
~ R. D. Laing
Disease
Hundred
Life
Life Is A
Mortality
Percent
Rate
Sexually
Transmitted
design
copy
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
Also
Breakdown
Death
Enslavement
Existential
Liberation
Madness
May
Need
Potential
Renewal
Well
design
copy
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
Discuss
Exist
Existence
Non-Existence
Rule
Rules
design
copy
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
~ R. D. Laing
Cannot
Despair
Schizophrenia
Understanding
Understood
Without
design
copy
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
Behavior
Experience
Gets
Labeled
Live
Order
Person
Schizophrenic
Situation
Special
Strategy
design
copy
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
~ R. D. Laing
Because
Change
Deeds
Fail
Failing
How
Limited
Little
Notice
Our
Range
Shapes
Think
Thoughts
Until
design
copy
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
Avoid
Avoided
Deal
Great
Great Deal
Life
Only
Pain
Perhaps
Trying
design
copy
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
~ R. D. Laing
Condition
Event
Fact
Label
Political
Schizophrenia
Social
design
copy
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
~ R. D. Laing
Assume
Being
False
Feel
Felt
Guilt
Obligation
Oneself
Other
Ought
Owes
People
True
design
copy
We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.
~ R. D. Laing
Early
Induced
Infancy
Trance
design
copy
We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
~ R. D. Laing
Belongs
Class
Culture
How
Matter
Mature
Moral
Nation
Normal
Oneself
Society
Takes
design
copy
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
~ R. D. Laing
Destroying
Effectively
Love
Ourselves
Violence
design
copy
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
Begin
Change
Disappearing
History
Live
Moment
Only
Present
See
Up
Where
design
copy
Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
~ R. D. Laing
Depends
Life
Living
Love
Whether
Worth
Worth Living
design
copy
Quote Maker
×
download
High Quality
BG
Logo
Watermark
W BG
×
Please use a modern browser as Chrome. The browser you are using doesn't have this feature.
Please use a modern browser as Chrome. The browser you are using doesn't have this feature.
Related Books
Author Profile
Votes :
Rating :
AuthorName
R. D. Laing
Profession
Psychologist
BirthDate
07 October, 1927
DeathDate
23 August, 1989
Country
Scotland
View Profile
Share to your friends..
Related Author
Jonathan Potter
R. D. Laing
view more
Share quotes with
Quote Fellas
Join Quote Fellas
Like Us!!
Quote Fellas
Popular Topics
Attitude
Death
Inspirational
Life
Love
Motivational
Nature
Positive