Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of love, equality, and freedom were really practiced instead of only preached, there would be no need for a special institution(the church) to take care of those principles.

It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.

If you do not smile, you are judged lacking in a 'pleasing personality' - and you need to have a pleasing personality if you want to sell your services, whether as a waitress, a salesman, or a physician.

Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.

Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings.

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation; in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society - and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic.