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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#hundred #life #life is a #mortality #percent

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 #deeds #fail #failing #how

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

#curiosity #easily #get #give #imagination

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#me #months #nine #pages #took

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#despair #schizophrenia #understanding #understood #without

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#experience #gets #invents #labeled #live

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#empty #history #philosophy #science #without

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#event #fact #label #political #schizophrenia

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#commitment #crime #intellectual #theory #virtue

If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#energy #even #faith #judging #lies