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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

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We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

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

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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.

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If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.

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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.

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

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Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

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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.

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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Psychologist

Born: October 7th, 1927

Died: August 23rd, 1989

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