Famous Quotes

"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 on History

More quotes about History

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

  Confucius on History

• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

  Abraham Lincoln on History

• "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

  Mahatma Gandhi on History

• "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

  Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by 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."

• "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."

• "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."

• "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."