Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.
R. D. LaingThe condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man.
R. D. LaingEven facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".
R. D. Laing