“Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives.”
More from Viktor Frankl on Philosophy
“Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of scarifice”
“Unnecessary suffering is masochistic rather than heroic.”
“He who knows the 'Why' for his existence is able to bear almost any 'How'.”
“No-one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there is a repressed angel.”
“Having been is the surest kind of being.”
“A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of...”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Isaac Asimov
13 quotes“Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.”