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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
Viktor E. Frankl
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Viktor E. Frankl
Age: 92 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 26
Died: 1997
Died: September 2
Existential Therapist
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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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The more one forgives himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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Success is total self-acceptance.
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Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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If we take a man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
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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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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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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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A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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