The ownership of industry by the state - that is not socialism.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.

That is not quite enough to make one happy, if one spends eight hours a day in something which in itself has no meaning and interest, except that one gains money from it.

The most important things we talk about on Sundays are things to which we pay very little attention.

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer.

Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire for freedom, an instinctive wish for submission?