[Sigmund Freud] makes the interpretation of dreams extremely simple: it deals in substance with discovering what unconscious desires, distorted but recognizable, are hid-den in the dream. Instead, for me the dream is a mixture of thoughts and sensations that man has when he is asleep, a mental state relatively protected from the constant noise that society makes.

I see socialism in the direction, of management, of enterprise, by all who work in the enterprise.

By equality, one once understood equality in the very same sense in which the Bible speaks of equality: that we are all equal, inasmuch as we are created in the image of God.

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.