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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.»
«Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.»
Author: R. D. Laing
(psychiatrist)
| About:
Creativity,
Exploration,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
at risk, climbs, explore, lane, lanes, territories, village
«From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.»
Author: R. D. Laing
(psychiatrist)
| Keywords:
confronts, destroying, enterprise, mainly, Mother The, on the whole, potentialities, potentiality, subjected, twentieth, twentieths, twentieth century
«The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.»
Author: R. D. Laing
(psychiatrist)
| About:
Failure
| Keywords:
failing, limited, notice, range, shapes, The Range
«The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.»
«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.»
«We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy»
Author: R. D. Laing
(psychiatrist)
| Keywords:
hypnotic, hypnotic trance, induced, infancy, post, trance, trances
«Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.»
«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.»
Author: R. D. Laing
(psychiatrist)
| Keywords:
exiled, realities, reside, resides, social reality, Society of
«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.»
Author: R. D. Laing
(psychiatrist)
| Keywords:
blown, blown up, blow up, brotherhood, Brotherhood Of Man, evoke, evoked, evokes, evoking, extends, The Brotherhood, The Other Half
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