R. D. Laing Quotes - Page 2

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• Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

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  Funny, Life, Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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• No one has the answer: we are answer and question.

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  Answers

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• Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.

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  Betrayal, Abdication, Normal

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• The way out is through the door you came in.

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  Healing, Doors, Perspective

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• A psychiatrist who professes to be a healer of souls, but who keeps people asleep, treats them for waking up, and drugs them asleep again (increasingly effectively as this field of technology sharpens its weapons), helps to drive them crazy.

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  Crazy, Technology, People

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• 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.

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  Existence, Non Existence

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• The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

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  Life, Science, Order

  Politics of Experience (1967) ch. 5

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• 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.

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  Change, Historical, Aging

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

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  Understanding, Despair, Schizophrenia

  The Divided Self (1960) ch. 2

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• If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies.

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  Lying, Suffering, Deals

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• What we think is less than what we know; What we know is less than what we love; What we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.

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  Love Is, Thinking, Spirituality

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient.

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  Patient, Traveler, Psychiatry

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• Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a ‘dream’ is going crazy.

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  Dream, Crazy, Real

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• Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed, our behavior will be destructive. If our experience is destroyed, we have lost our own selves.

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  Self, Way, Behavior

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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

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  Infancy Is, Trance, Posts

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• 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.

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  Nature, Class, Society

  R. D. Laing (1990). “The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste our own sanity. We begin with the children. It is imperative to catch them in time. Without the most thorough and rapid brainwashing their dirty minds would see through our dirty tricks. Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.s if possible.

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  Children, War, Dirty

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man.

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  Men, Mind, Normal

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.

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  Names, Patient, Schizophrenia

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• The human mind has to ask "Who, what, whence, whither, why am I?" And it is very doubtful if the human mind can answer any of these questions.

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  Mind, Answers, Doubtful

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• The fountain has not played itself out, the Flame still shines, the River still flows, the Spring still bubbles forth, the Light has not faded. But between us and It, there is a veil which is more like fifty feet of solid concrete. Deus absconditus. Or we have absconded.

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  Spring, Light, Flames

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• Our civilization represses not only "the instincts", not only sexuality, but any form of transcendence. Among one-dimensional men, it is not surprising that someone with an insistent experience of other dimensions, that he cannot entirely deny or forget, will run the risk either of being destroyed by the others, or of betraying what he knows.

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  Running, Men, Civilization

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• We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

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  Love, Violence, Destroying Ourselves

  Politics of Experience (1967) ch. 3

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• Before one goes through the gate one may not be aware there is a gate One may think there is a gate to go through and look a long time for it without finding it One may find it and it may not open If it opens one may be through it As one goes through it one sees that the gate one went through was the self that went through it no one went through a gate there was no gate to go through no one ever found a gate no one ever realized there was never a gate

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  Thinking, Self, Long

  R. D. Laing (2008). “Knots”, p.194, Marbot Ediciones

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• From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as its father and mother and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potential.

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  Love, Mother, Baby

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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