The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.

I cannot face the idea of life without work. What would one do when ideas failed or words refused to come? It is impossible not to shudder at the thought.

Not all men are worthy of love.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world. The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling - a feeling which embraced the universe and expressed an inseparable connection of the ego with the external world.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.