Irvin D. Yalom Quote

Wish gives the warmth, the content, the imagination, the child's play, the freshness, and the richness to will. Will gives the self-direction, the maturity, to wish. Without wish, will loses its life-blood, itsviability, and tends to expire in self-contradiction. If you have only will and no wish, you have the dried-up, Victorian, neopuritan man. If you have only wish and no will, you have the driven, unfree, infantile person who, as an adult-remaining-an-infant, may become the robot man.66

Irvin D. Yalom

Wish gives the warmth, the content, the imagination, the child's play, the freshness, and the richness to will. Will gives the self-direction, the maturity, to wish. Without wish, will loses its life-blood, itsviability, and tends to expire in self-contradiction. If you have only will and no wish, you have the dried-up, Victorian, neopuritan man. If you have only wish and no will, you have the driven, unfree, infantile person who, as an adult-remaining-an-infant, may become the robot man.66

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