Friday Thread: “If we take man as he really is, we make him worse.”
Here Viktor Frankl cites a survey [h/t Ciaran] which comes to the following conclusions about American students: 60% said that they wanted to make a lot of money; and 78% said that finding a meaning and purpose in the world was important to them. He then goes on to illustrate a great insight from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: If we take man as he really is, we make him worse. But if are seen to be idealists and overestimating, overrating …