I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind of thing Mr. Huxley described in "Brave New World."

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

[Sigmund Freud] makes the interpretation of dreams extremely simple: it deals in substance with discovering what unconscious desires, distorted but recognizable, are hid-den in the dream. Instead, for me the dream is a mixture of thoughts and sensations that man has when he is asleep, a mental state relatively protected from the constant noise that society makes.

The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own

It doesn't matter whether one uses God or doesn't. What matters is which experience a person has.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence, then any society which excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature.