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

Because Change Deeds Fail

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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.

R. D. Laing

Begin Change Disappearing History

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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

R. D. Laing

Destroying Effectively Love Ourselves

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Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

R. D. Laing

Along Climbs Creative CreativePeople

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

R. D. Laing

Early Induced Infancy Trance

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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

R. D. Laing

Adjustment Insane Insanity Perfectly

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

R. D. Laing

Achieved Alienation Beings Destiny

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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

Children Curiosity Easily Get

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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.

R. D. Laing

Condition Event Fact Label

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

R. D. Laing

Depends Life Living Love

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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.

R. D. Laing

Avoid Avoided Deal Great

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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

R. D. Laing

Belongs Class Culture How

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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

R. D. Laing

Assume Being False Feel

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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.

R. D. Laing

Also Breakdown Death Enslavement

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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

Behavior Experience Gets Labeled

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Adam Smith

Belief Matter Money

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The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Adam Smith

Aspirations Poor Poverty Real

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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Adam Smith

Baker Benevolence Butcher Dinner

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I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

Adam Smith

Affected Done Good Known

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Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

Adam Smith

Animal Another Bargain Bones

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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

Adam Smith

Finger Happiness Lays Never

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Adam Smith

Added Clear ClearConscience Conscience

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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Adam Smith

Chief Consists Enjoyment Greater

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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Adam Smith

Affections Benevolent Constitute Exercise

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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

Adam Smith

Any Become Country Demand

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Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

Adam Smith

AllThings First Gold Labour

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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Adam Smith

Antidote Enthusiasm Great Poison

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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Adam Smith

Absorb After Changes Detail

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This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

Adam Smith

Baffled Cases Facts Imagination

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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

Adam Smith

Ambiguity City Had Pass

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Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

Adam Smith

Adventure Approach Certain Certainty

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Adam Smith

Defense Opulence Superior

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Adam Smith

Animals Another Barter Common

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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

Adam Smith

Been Defense Given Innocence

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Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

Adam Smith

Generosity Humanity Man Virtue

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No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

Adam Smith

Common Complaint Money More

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Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

Adam Smith

AllThings First Labor Money

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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Adam Smith

Because Conscience Excess Feared

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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Adam Smith

Far Flourishing Greater Happy

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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Adam Smith

Altogether Ambition Desire Directing

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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

Adam Smith

Corrects Customers Discipline Effectual

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Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

Adam Smith

Any Cheerfulness Christian Course

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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

Adam Smith

About Administration Barbarism Being

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It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.

Adam Smith

Active Banking Capital Country

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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

Adam Smith

Attended Consumer Consumption End

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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

Irvine Welsh

About Am Hate I Am

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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

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Afford Basically Books Britain

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Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.

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Almost Any Been Book

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I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

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Act Any Being Concept

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375 Scottish Quotes

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

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

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

R. D. Laing

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

R. D. Laing

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

R. D. Laing

R. D. Laing

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

R. D. Laing

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

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

R. D. Laing

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

R. D. Laing

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.

R. D. Laing

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

R. D. Laing

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

R. D. Laing

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.

R. D. Laing

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

Adam Smith

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Adam Smith

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Adam Smith

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

Adam Smith

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

Adam Smith

Adam Smith

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Adam Smith

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Adam Smith

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Adam Smith

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

Adam Smith

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

Adam Smith

Adam Smith

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Adam Smith

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

Adam Smith

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

Adam Smith

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

Adam Smith

Adam Smith

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Adam Smith

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

Adam Smith

Adam Smith

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

Adam Smith

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

Adam Smith

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Adam Smith

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Adam Smith

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Adam Smith

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.