A quote by Viktor E. Frankl
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A quote by Viktor E. Frankl
"Man’s search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health. There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life. There is... See more
Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
In other cases, the place of frustrated will to meaning is taken by the will to pleasure. That is why existential frustration often eventuates in sexual compensation. We can observe in such cases that the sexual libido becomes rampant in the existential vacuum.
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
Man’s search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a “secondary rationalization” of instinctual drives.
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
As to the causation of the feeling of meaninglessness, one may say, albeit in an oversimplifying vein, that people have enough to live by but nothing to live for; they have the means but no meaning.
Viktor E Frankl • Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.