We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us / of becoming happy / is not attainable: yet we may not / nay, cannot / give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.