If one admits that the influence of the outside world is essentially beneficial, the lack of such influence during sleep would tend to diminish the value of our dream activity so as to render it inferior to the mental activity that takes place when we are awake, when we are exposed to these beneficial influences of surrounding reality. But how can one say that the influence of reality is exclusively beneficial. Could it not also be damaging, and could its absence not give access to qualities superior to those that we have when awake?

I would say our social relationships are relatively shallow. We are actually afraid to be intimate, with people - many people even with their wives and husbands.

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.

When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

We've wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more dignified human life; but actually what has happened is that production and consumption have become means - have ceased to be means and have become ends, and we are production crazy and consumption crazy.

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.