all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.

What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from the start. There can be no doubt about its efficacy, and yet its programme is at loggerheads with the whole world, with the macrocosm as much as with the microcosm.

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.