R. D. Laing Quotes

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life. - 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

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

We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world -- mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt. - R. D. Laing

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy. - 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

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

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

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