Inspirational Quotes » R. D. Laing

Quote #23735

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:16:04 +0000

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 disappeari

Quote #23736

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:16:04 +0000

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

Quote #23737

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:16:04 +0000

To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.

Quote #14502

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:14:21 +0000

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

Quote #11043

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:13:42 +0000

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

Quote #11045

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:13:42 +0000

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.

Quote #11046

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:13:42 +0000

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.

Quote #1954

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:12:01 +0000

Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.

Quote #1892

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:12:00 +0000

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad.