Dreaming is a philogenetically older mode of thought.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

No concept is a carrier of life.

The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same.

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.

Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.