R.D. Laing

"The capacity to be alone is the capacity to be free."

"We mistake the map of reality for reality itself."

"The deepest form of love is the willingness to be known completely."

"We are all walking contradictions waiting to be resolved."

"The invention of the scapegoat is perhaps mankind's most successful invention."

"We are lived by forces we pretend to understand."

"The difficulty we have in accepting the other person is the difficulty we have in accepting ourselves."

"Madness is to be understood as a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo-social realities."

"Our task is to expand the range of human consciousness."

"If we can do no good, at least we must do no harm."

"The alienation of the subject is the estrangement of the world from the subject."

"What we are asleep do not know we are doing."

"Fantasy is a reassurance. The key to the world is to imagine what it could be."

"The primal act of freedom is to say no."

"There are things we know we don't know. But there are also things we don't know we don't know."

"The greatest threat to any tyranny is the person who refuses to believe that the system is real."

"We are dying and we know it."

"Psychiatry could be a lot better if we stopped trying to explain normal people and started explaining the normal society."

"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want."

"To love is to commit oneself unconditionally."

"Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd."

"The self is not given to us but is something that we must achieve."

"True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego."

"We operate in chaos, and we must learn to do so gracefully."

"The contemplation of things as they are without substitution or imposture is itself a thing greatly to be desired."

"Suffering is the sacrifice of ignorance."

"Our task is not to produce goods but to produce human beings."

"The mind is not separate from the body."

"We are all murderers and prostitutes, and we are all judges of murderers and prostitutes."

"Life can be profoundly meaningful even in the absence of happiness."