The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.

Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily to an irrational primitive mental state.

What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture.

Men are born equal but they are also born different.

[Sigmund ] Freud did not under-stand that the dream is a highly creative act, written in the universal language of symbolism, and only secondarily does censorship distort those parts that the subject refuses to accept even in sleep.

In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy.

The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.