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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Viktor E. Frankl

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Viktor E. Frankl
Age: 92 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 26
Died: 1997
Died: September 2
Existential Therapist
Neurologist
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Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
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Writer
Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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[Speaking of his experience in a concentration camp:] As we said before, any attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal...Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. He was soon lost.
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Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.
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No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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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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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.
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Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
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And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.
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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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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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It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations. But as for myself, I would not be willing to live merely for the sake of my defense mechanisms, nor would I be ready to die merely for the sake of my reaction formations.
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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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It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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