Top 20 Quotes by R. D. Laing

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

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.

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

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

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

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.

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.