Quotes by Ronald Laing

Ronald Laing

Ronald Laing

unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist

Lived from: 1927 - 1989

Category: Psychologists Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 7 october 1927 Died: 23 august 1989

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  • Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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  • Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.
    The politics of experience
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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.
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  • 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.
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  • Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
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  • Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
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  • The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.
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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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  • There is no such ''condition'' as ''schizophrenia,'' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
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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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  • We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.
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  • 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.
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  • Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
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What are the most famous quotes from Ronald Laing?

The two most famous quotes from Ronald Laing are:

  • "Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings."
  • "Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth."

When did Ronald Laing live?

Ronald Laing was born in 1927 and died in the year 1989.