Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

Ger-mans love the ambiguous word, verbal assonances as ends in themselves,vague concepts. Anglosaxons are more clear.

Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.

All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human nature, and the human necessities as they appear as drives, needs, passions, etc., in any given historical period.

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.