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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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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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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 attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen overnight. The last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way.
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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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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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.
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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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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
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No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
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I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.
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When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
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It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful.
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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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As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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