R. D. Laing

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

— R. D. Laing

#hundred #life #life is a #mortality #percent

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

— R. D. Laing

#life #living #love #whether #worth

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. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#breakdown #death #enslavement #existential #liberation

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#effectively #love #masquerading #ourselves #violence

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

#already #begin #disappearing #history #live

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#insane #insanity #perfectly #rational #world

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. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#descended #freud #head #hero #him

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

— R. D. Laing

#induced #infancy #trance

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. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#class #culture #how #matter #mature

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

— R. D. Laing

#curiosity #easily #get #give #imagination