There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.

What we have in common is a mass men, a mass bureaucracy, and a manipulation of everyone to act smoothly, but with the illusion that he follows his own decisions and opinions.

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

[Sigmund ] Freud did not under-stand that the dream is a highly creative act, written in the universal language of symbolism, and only secondarily does censorship distort those parts that the subject refuses to accept even in sleep.