Viktor E. Frankl Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Tasks, Quests, Taught

  "Optimism Or Overconfidence?" by Blythe McGarvie, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2010.

• When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Pleasure, Persons

• Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Pain, Men, Gains

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.113, Beacon Press

• When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Pleasure, Find Me

• Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Goal, Wish, Sides

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.122, Beacon Press

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