“When a man can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.” — Viktor Frankl
“When a man can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.” — Viktor Frankl
man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life. That is why man is even ready to suffer, on the condition, to be sure, that his suffering has a meaning.
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
It is one of the basic tenets of logotherapy that man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life. That is why man is even ready to suffer, on the condition, to be sure, that his suffering has a meaning.
Viktor E Frankl • Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
Purpose is about pursuing something outside yourself as opposed to pleasuring yourself.
Ryan Holiday • Ego Is the Enemy
What man actually needs is not some tension-less state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.