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Letter "R" » R. D. Laing Quotes
«Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.»
Author: R. D. Laing
(psychiatrist)
| Keywords:
adjustment, adjustments, insane, insanity, perfectly, rational
«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.»
«Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.»
Author: R. D. Laing
(psychiatrist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
disease, mortality, mortality rate, one hundred, percent, rate, sexually, sexually transmitted, sexually transmitted disease, transmits, transmitted, transmitting
«Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.»
«Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.»
«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.»
Author: R. D. Laing
(psychiatrist)
| Keywords:
adopt, bemused, craze, crazed, glimpse, selves, spiritual world, standpoint, The Spiritual
«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.»
«We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.»
Author: R. D. Laing
(psychiatrist)
| About:
Violence
| Keywords:
destroying, effectively, masquerade, masquerades, masquerading
«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.»
Author: R. D. Laing
(psychiatrist)
| Keywords:
breakdown, Breakdowns, break through, enslavement, existential, liberation
«There is no such ''condition'' as ''schizophrenia,'' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.»
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