Source: Short fiction, The Martian and the Moron (1949), p. 44
“The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.”
Source: Freedom
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“Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic”
Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), Chapter 1
Context: Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problem and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind.


“Dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.”

Niewolnik marzy o wolności, człowiek wolny o bogactwie, bogacz o władzy, a władca o wolności.
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)

“No person has the right to rain on your dreams.”

“He has personality problems beyond the dreams of analysts.”
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“A person is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.”
Quoted in Gene Fowler, Good Night, Sweet Prince (1943)

Radio Interview, Radio Osttirol, March 22, 2008, by Werner Gatterer