A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.

It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and the fact that in physics atoms which were yesterday assumed to be square are now assumed to be round is exploited with unjustified tendentiousness by all who are hungry for faith; so long as physics extends our dominion over nature, these changes ought to be a matter of complete indifference to you.

A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.

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

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

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.

Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.