The Facts of Life Quotes

“The more aware of our feelings, the more competent we are likely to be in restraining them when necessary, and the more easily will we loosen such restraint when circumstances no longer seem to require it.
Also in this way we will not need to use up any more energy than necessary.
The release of pent-up feelings almost always seems to be refreshing and energizing, so long as they do not explode into destructive conduct which we later have good reason to regret.”
― R.D. Laing, The Facts of Life: An Essay in Feelings, Facts and Fantasy

“The scientific method is based on tampering with what would be happening if we were doing nothing to it.”
― R.D. Laing, The Facts of Life: An Essay in Feelings, Facts and Fantasy

“He: Have you read Tolkien?
Me: No.
He: He's behind a lot of the way young people's minds are working. I can't make head or tail of it.

Chief of R&D for a transworld chemical industry (He) holding forth to R.D Laing (Me) about the infiltration of the 'extreme left wing' into American society [28 January 1973].”
― R.D. Laing, The Facts of Life: An Essay in Feelings, Facts and Fantasy