The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.

If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

When an individual is awake, almost all he does and says is inspired by the model of behavior that the society imposes,even without his being aware of it.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

[Sigmund ] Freud assumes that every dream represents the satisfaction of adesire and in the last analysis, of a sexual desire that has its roots in infancy.

Happiness today, I think, is for most people the satisfaction of the eternal suckling: to drink in more this, that, or the other.