Top 20 Quotes by R. D. Laing

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.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

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

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

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