We live in a moment of history where change is so ... -R. D. Laing

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 , Psychologist
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R. D. Laing Quotes to Explore

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain....
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....
We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one take...
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that....
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 d...
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....
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation....
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent....

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We have plenty of examples from twentieth-century history where, out of fear of liberalism or Communism, religious conservatives made alliances with s...
I did 'Call of Duty Modern Warfare' as Gaz, then I did Ghost in 'Modern Warfare 2,' which has become one of the most iconic figures in the history of ...
There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation - and I think that's all really great. But I also feel tha...
I believe this generation should know their history and they should know that the struggle's not over yet....
Throughout history, cities have been associated with incredible bursts of creative energy - the Renaissance in Florence, or modernism in Paris. London...
I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, s...
There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were ...
When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of the Actor's Workshop, unti...
In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the com...
Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happe...