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All Quotes by author - R. D. Laing
" Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. "
Present
Destiny
Only
" Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that. "
Imagination
Children
Love
" 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. "
Help
Creative
People
" 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. "
Hero
Head
Theory
" 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. "
Know
Think
I Think
" Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. "
Adjustment
Insanity
Rational
" Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. "
Disease
Rate
Percent
" 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. "
Potential
Well
Need
" 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
Discuss
Existence
" Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. "
Despair
Schizophrenia
Understanding
" The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. "
Experience
Behavior
Live
" 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. "
Because
Think
Change
" 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. "
Only
Avoid
Great
" There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. "
Event
Schizophrenia
Political
" 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. "
True
Assume
Guilt
" We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy. "
Induced
Trance
Early
" 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. "
Society
Nation
Moral
" We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. "
Destroying
Love
Violence
" 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. "
History
Change
Present
" Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life. "
Love
Worth Living
Life
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