125 Quotes by R. D. Laing

What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.

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

Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness, but any particular person is not a necessary part of our being.

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.

You don't love me.. Believe me! You don't love anyone. How could you? And no one loves you. How could they? Except me, it's only because I love you that I'm telling you all this. I Love you.. R. D. Laing.

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.

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.

Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.

Where can you scream? It's a serious question: where can you go in society and scream?