Bliss in possession will not last; — Bliss

"Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these."

"I know I am—that simplest bliss The millions of my brothers miss. I know the fortune to be born, Even to the meanest wretch they scorn."

"The hues of bliss more brightly glow, Chastisd by sabler tints of woe."

"A shoemaker who loses himself in mystical ecstasy and begins to think of himself as a saviour of the people, sent by God, will inevitably cut the soles the wrong way and mess up his stitches. As time goes on, he will be faced with starvation. It is precisely by this process, on the other hand, that the politician becomes strong and rich."

"But such a sacred and home-felt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss, I never heard till now."

"The deep longing for redemption and release - consciously from ‘sins’, unconsciously from sexual tensions - is warded off. States of religious ecstasy are nothing other than conditions of sexual excitation of the vegetative nervous system, which can never be released. Religious excitation cannot be comprehended and therefore cannot be mastered, without first understanding the contradiction by which it is ruled. It is not only anti- sexual, but to a large extent sexual as well. It is not only moralistic; it is altogether unnatural. From a sex-economic point of view, it is unhygienic."