“When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to surv...”
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Viktor Emil Frankl was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. He was the founder of logotherapy, which is a form of existential analysis, the "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy".
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“When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to surv...”
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“Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”
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“A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is...”
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“Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated...”
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“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”
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“Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.”
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“No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.”
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“A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He know...”
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“Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.”
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“Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.”
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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
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“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.”
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“A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist's role consists of widening an...”
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“Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.”
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“I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.”
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“If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life ca...”
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“If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, the...”
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“Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient's being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being...”
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“A human being is a deciding being.”
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“For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a pe...”
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