Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.

For the most part, biophiliacs,lovers of life, are found among simple people, without pretensions.

For [Sigmund ] Freud, the manifest dream, that is that which we remember after waking,is like a code message, that can be interpreted, provided the right key is avail-able, for example the method of free association.

The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.