https://youtu.be/loay2imHq5E
VIDEO EXCERPTS: You know who has said this: If we take man as he is, we make him worse. But if we take man as he should be, we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
[...] If we seem to be idealist 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.
So we have to be idealist in a way, because then we wind up at the true or the real realist [orientation].
Viktor Frankl on "Why the idealists are the real realists"
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/loay2imHq5E
VIDEO EXCERPTS: You know who has said this: If we take man as he is, we make him worse. But if we take man as he should be, we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
[...] If we seem to be idealist 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.
So we have to be idealist in a way, because then we wind up at the true or the real realist [orientation].
Viktor Frankl on "Why the idealists are the real realists"