Ronald David Laing quotes
Ronald David Laing was a Scottish psychiatrist, famous for his unconventional views on mental illness. His work focused on the social and interpersonal factors influencing mental health, often challenging mainstream psychiatric practices. He became an influential figure in the anti-psychiatry movement and inspired debates about the nature of sanity and society. Here are 48 of his quotes:
A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university ... This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad more effectively than we are genuinely educating them. Perhaps it is our way of educating them that is driving them mad.
Ronald David Laing
Before one goes through the gate
one may not be aware there is a gate
One may think there is a gate to go through
and look a long time for it
without finding it
One may find it and
it may not open
If it opens one may be through it
As one goes through it
one sees that the gate one went through
was the self that went through it
no one went through a gate
there was no gate to go through
no one ever found a gate
no one ever realized there was never a gate.
Ronald David Laing
