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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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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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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! - success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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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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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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