The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

If youth knew; if age could.

I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.

We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.

What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.