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 life. Frankl saw three possible sources
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“The idea that technology alone can solve social and political problems is a dangerous delusion. But the idea that they can be solved without technology is also wrongheaded.”
― The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future
― The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future
“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“The only coherent approach to technology is to see both sides at the same time.”
― The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future
― The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future
“Confounding the dignity of man with mere usefulness arises from a conceptual confusion that in turn may be traced back to the contemporary nihilism transmitted on many an academic campus and many an analytical couch.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“The life also which here we live hath its own enchantment, through a certain proportion of its own, and a correspondence with all things beautiful here below.”
― Confessions
― Confessions
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