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.

Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination.

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.

The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

We are concerned with things. We are concerned with success. We are concerned with money. We are concerned with instrumentalities.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.