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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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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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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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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How can we dare to predict the behavior of man? We may predict the movements of a machine, of an automaton more than this, we many even try to predict the mechanisms or dynamisms of the human psyche as well. But man is more than psyche.
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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.
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For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.
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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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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
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I try to do everything as soon as possible, and not at the last moment. This ensures that, when I am overburdened with work, I will not face the added pressure of knowing that something is still to be done.
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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
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For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
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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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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
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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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Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.
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What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
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It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me - and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.
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