R.D. Laing

"We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect."

"To know ourselves as part of one another is essential."

"The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice."

"History itself is made by criminals, not by honest men."

"Life as we live it is a continuous interpenetration of our selves and others."

"Our task is to understand ourselves and then to teach others to do the same."

"The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves to be at home here on earth."

"Every hour wounds us; the last one kills us."

"We spend most of our lives conjugating three verbs: to want, to have, and to do."

"Being is not a property of entities, but rather an ongoing process of creation."

"The divided self cannot exist if we are to truly live."

"We must learn to be less dependent on that which is outside ourselves."

"Interpersonal experience is the only reality that is worth taking account of."

"If we are to live together we must talk together in truth."

"The roots of violence are not just in aggression; they are in the denial of love."

"Our children and patients are not ours to possess or to shape in our image."

"True creativity often comes from those society has rejected."

"The world needs more people who are willing to be vulnerable."

"We are all potentially sane and potentially mad."

"Language is a virus from outer space that infects us all."

"The mind can only see what it is prepared to perceive."

"We live in an age of synthetic experience."

"To discover one's self requires the courage to face one's lies."

"Society is not a naturally given thing, but a human creation."

"The unconscious is the condition of consciousness."

"Families are not natural, they are learned."

"We are never more alienated than when we conform most completely."

"Beauty emerges when we stop trying to be beautiful."

"The cure for the disease of existence is not more existence."

"We are making ourselves sick with our need to be normal."