December 6, 2011


If we take man as he really is, we make him worse.  But if we overestimate him… if we seem to be idealists and are overestimating, overrating man, and looking at him that high, here, above, you know what happens?  We promote him to what he really can be.

If you don’t recognize a young man’s will to meaning, man’s search for meaning, you make him worse.  You make him dull.  You make him frustrated.  You still add and contribute to his frustration.  There must be a spark of search for meaning; let’s recognize this.  Let’s presuppose it, and then you will elicit it from him, and you will make him become what he, in principle, is capable of becoming.

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