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

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

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief