109 Quotes by R.D. Laing

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

Insanity – a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.

What do you do when you don’t know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any other profession.

Any experience of reality is indescribable!

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.

A lot of the time I’m in the present, and I’m thinking about the past or scheming about the future and missing every present moment, instead of actually partaking of the sacrament of every present moment.