# Quote — Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

> 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.

- Author: [Viktor Frankl](https://www.leafyquotes.com/viktor-frankl.md)
- Book: [Man's Search for Meaning](https://www.leafyquotes.com/viktor-frankl/mans-search-for-meaning.md)
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## More from this book

> Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/viktor-frankl/mans-search-for-meaning/our-generation-is-realistic.md)

> 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.

p. 126 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/viktor-frankl/mans-search-for-meaning/there-is-nothing.md)

> Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/viktor-frankl/mans-search-for-meaning/love-is-the.md)