We substitute, or we rather hide, this fear of real intimacy by a superficial kind of friendliness, which is quite nice, but nevertheless, very shallow.

Man always dies before he is fully born.

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

The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.

We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.

In fifty years activity as an analyst I have witnessed again and again that a dreamer after having met a personage regarded by all as influential and good,saw him again in a dream with a different face.

Whether...a change from the supremacy of natural science to a new social science will take place...depends on one factor: how many brilliant, learned, disciplined, and caring men and women are attracted by the new challenge.