“Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.”
“What can a fallen star wish for, but it fulfills other's wishes, is it not?”
“God hates this wishful dreaming because it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious. Those who dream of this idealized community demand that it be fulfilled by God, by others, and by themselves. They enter the community of Christians with their demands, set up their own law, and judge one another and even God accordingly.”
“Knowledge, as opposed to fantasies of wish fulfilment, is difficult to come by.”
“The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.”
“Life becomes interesting for the possibility to fulfill a dream.”