Ronald David Laing quotes - page 2

I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of being-in-the-world to a psychotic way of being-in-the-world. (Ronald David Laing)
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and there is a 100 mortality rate. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. View quote
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We can see other people's behaviour, but not their experience. View quote
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Existential phenomenology attempts to characterize the nature of a person's experience of his world and himself. View quote
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Social phenomenology is the science of my own and of others' experience. View quote
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The other person's behaviour is an experience of mine. My behaviour is an experience of the other. View quote
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There is little conjunction of truth and social "reality" (Ronald David Laing)
I see you, and you see me. I experience you, and you experience me. I see your behaviour. You see my behaviour. But I do not and never have and never will see your experience of me. Just as you cannot "see" my experience of you. View quote
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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation, we belong, no matter how normal, moral, or mature we take ourselves to be. Humanity is estranged from its authentic possibilities. View quote
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Experience used to be called The Soul. Experience as invisibility of man to man is at the same time more evident than anything. View quote
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These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities, and on the whole this enterprise is successful. View quote
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Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. View quote
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Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste our own sanity. We begin with the children. It is imperative to catch them in time. Without the most thorough and rapid brainwashing their dirty minds would see through our dirty tricks. View quote
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Psychology is the logos of experience. Psychology is the structure of the evidence, and hence psychology is the science of sciences. View quote
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease. View quote
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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. I am a specialist, God help me, in events in inner space and time, in experiences called thoughts, images, reveries, dreams, visions, hallucinations, dreams of memories, memories of dreams, memories of visions, dreams of hallucinations, refractions of refractions of refractions of that original Alpha and Omega of experience and reality, that Reality on whose repression, denial, splitting, projection, falsification, and general desecration and profanation our civilisation as much as anything is based. View quote
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In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie. (Ronald David Laing)
We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation, we belong, no matter how normal, moral, or mature we take ourselves to be. Humanity is estranged from its authentic possibilities. This basic vision prevents us from taking any unequivocal view of the sanity of common sense, or of the madness of the so-called madman. ... Our alientation goes to the roots. The realisation of this is the essential springboard for any serious reflection on any aspect of present inter-human life. View quote
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I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men. All men are invisible to one another. Experience used to be called The Soul. Experience as invisibility of man to man is at the same time more evident than anything. Only experience is evident. Experience is the only evidence. Psychology is the logos of experience. Psychology is the structure of the evidence, and hence psychology is the science of sciences. View quote
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