The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects.

Love is the productive form of relatedness to others and to oneself. It implies responsibility, care, respect. If it isn't productive and respectful, it isn't love, but only fear masquerading as love.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it

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?

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.