What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
Viktor E. FranklAbout author
- Author's profession: Psychologist
- Nationality: austrian
- Born: March 26, 1905
- Died: September 2, 1997
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