[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.

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.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about the existence regardless of whether this truth serves or hinders the survival purpose of a given society. All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects.

People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.