R. D. Laing Quotes About Sanity

Quotes about: Sanity

• From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The madness of our patients is an artifact of the destruction wreaked on them by us, and by them on themselves.

  R. D. Laing

  Pseudo, Patient, Madness

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

• True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality... and through this death a rebirth and the eventual re-establishment of a new kind of ego-functioning, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer.

  R. D. Laing

  Reality, Self, Ego

• In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.

  R. D. Laing

  Madness, Sanity, Ambiguous

• Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste our own sanity. We begin with the children. It is imperative to catch them in time. Without the most thorough and rapid brainwashing their dirty minds would see through our dirty tricks. Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.s if possible.

  R. D. Laing

  Children, War, Dirty

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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