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


Civilization and Its Discontents (1929)


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

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