The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

If one admits that the influence of the outside world is essentially beneficial, the lack of such influence during sleep would tend to diminish the value of our dream activity so as to render it inferior to the mental activity that takes place when we are awake, when we are exposed to these beneficial influences of surrounding reality. But how can one say that the influence of reality is exclusively beneficial. Could it not also be damaging, and could its absence not give access to qualities superior to those that we have when awake?

Finally one arrives at this: the state of sleep has an ambiguous function; in sleep, the lack of contact with the culture brings out the worst and also the best in us.

Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.

The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own

When people can see a vision and simultaneously recognize what can be done step by step in a concrete way to achieve it, they will begin to feel encouragement and enthusiasm instead of fright.