Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Desire creates its own object.
Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.
The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.
It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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