R. D. Laing Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.”

“Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.”

“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.”

“Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.”

“There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”