The programme of becoming happy, which the pleasure principle imposes on us, cannot be fulfilled; yet we must not - indeed, we cannot - give up our efforts to bring it nearer to fulfilment by some means or other. - Sigmund Freud (Civilization And Its Discontents Quotes)

The programme of becoming happy, which the pleasure principle imposes on us, cannot be fulfilled; yet we must not – indeed, we cannot – give up our efforts to bring it nearer to fulfilment by some means or other.[Das Programm, welches uns das Lustprinzip aufdrängt, glücklich zu werden, ist nicht zu erfüllen, doch darf man – nein, kann man – die Bemühungen, es irgendwie der Erfüllung näherzubringen, nicht aufgeben.]

Source:(W. W. Norton, ed. 1962), Chapter II, Page 30
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