[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.

Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality.

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.

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

The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the same thought is to say that the aim of sadism is to transform man into a thing, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life - freedom.