R.D. Laing

"The greatest problem of our time is that we are dying without living."

"Insanity is a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world."

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

"If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know I don't know, I think I don't know."

"Life is a sexually transmitted disease."

"The divided self is the unhappy self."

"We live in a constant state of freedom within boundaries."

"The only way out is through."

"Madness is to be understood as a breakthrough rather than a breakdown."

"Our memories are subject to revision by us and the community."

"True sanity entails in some way recognizing where we are and how we are, moment by moment."

"We are taught to repress our feelings from infancy."

"People experience the facts of life and react to them."

"No experience literally absorbed is ever lost."

"The capacity to love depends on having been loved."

"Behavior is a function of experience."

"Our alienation goes to the roots of our being."

"We can't live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects."

"If we can't distinguish between our own experience and what we've been told about it, we lose our mind."

"The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances."

"One cannot not communicate."

"To describe the behavior called insane, one must take into account the behavior of some others."

"Suffering is not in itself pathological."

"Each person is the other and the other is oneself."

"Mental health requires the honest integration of experience."

"We are dying from time to time."

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four."

"The straight man is not necessarily well."

"We have to accept that this loss of reality, this entry into this unreal phantom world is not a new event or a new possibility. It began long ago."

"Anxiety is the price of freedom."