List of R. D. Laing Quotes

Freud Was A Hero. He Descended To The Underworld And Met There Stark Terrors. He Carried With Him His Theory As A Medusa's Head Which Turned These Terrors To Stone.

I, For Instance, Regard Any Particular Man As Finite, As One Who Has Had A Beginning And Who Will Have An End. He Has Been Born, And He Is Going To Die. In The Meantime, He Has A Body That Roots Him To This Time And This Place.

In The Society Of Men The Truth Resides Now Less In What Things Are Than In What They Are Not.

Conventions Are Convenient. It Is Inconvenient To Say People Are Dead When They Are Alive, Or Alive When They Have Been Buried, Or That The World Is Crumbling When It Is, As Everyone Can See, There As Usual. If All A That Does Not Fit B Is Ipso Facto Disqualified, We Have To Tailor A To Shape And Size To Avoid Serious Trouble, And Not All Are Equally Gifted In This Art.

Few Books Today Are Forgivable. Black On Canvas, Silence On The Screen, An Empty White Sheet Of Paper Are Perhaps Feasible.

Being Embodied As Such Is No Insurance Against Feelings Of Hopelessness Or Meaningslessness. Beyond His Body, He Still Has To Know Who He Is.

We Live Equally Out Of Our Bodies And Out Of Our Minds.

The Square Root Of Nothing.

In Describing One Way Of Going Mad, I Shall Try To Show That There Is A Comprehensible Transition From The Sane Schizoid Way Of Being-in-the-world To A Psychotic Way Of Being-in-the-world.

A Man Who Says That Men Are Machines May Be A Great Scientist. A Man Who Says He Is A Machine Is 'depersonalized' In Psychiatric Jargon.

One Cannot Say Everything At Once.

Truth Is Literally That Which Is Without Secrecy, What Discloses Itself Without A Veil.