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. -R. D. Laing History
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that. -R. D. Laing Imagination
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. -R. D. Laing Change
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. -R. D. Laing Society
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. -R. D. Laing Death
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. -R. D. Laing Change
