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

A strong egoism is a protection.

Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.

Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers.

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites.

I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.

Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood.