“Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.”
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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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“Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.”
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“There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.”
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“The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.”
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“Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.”
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“Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.”
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“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.”
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“Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.”
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