109 Quotes by R.D. Laing

The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient.

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.

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

Beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities.

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

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.

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.

I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men.