109 Quotes by 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.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book.

Only experience is evident. Experience is the only evidence. Psychology is the logos of experience. Psychology is the structure of the evidence and hence psychology is the science of sciences.

He: Have you read Tolkien?Me: No.He: He's behind a lot of the way young people's minds are working. I can't make head or tail of it.Chief of R&D for a transworld chemical industry (He) holding forth to R.D Laing (Me) about the infiltration of the 'extreme left wing' into American society [28 January 1973].

They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.