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As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.
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But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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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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We dislike talking about our experiences. No explanations are needed for those who have been inside, and the others will understand neither how we felt then nor how we feel now.
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Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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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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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.
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