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

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

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

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

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

Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?