Scottish - Psychologist | October 7, 1927 - August 23, 1989
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.
R. D. Laing
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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.
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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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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.
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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.
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The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
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