Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as right in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as brute force.

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe.

Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.

Love and work, work and love...that's all there is.