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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
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Psychiatrist
Psychologist
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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.
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It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future and how we undermine it, today.
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Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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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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Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
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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 one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
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Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
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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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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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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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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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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.
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Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the why for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any how.
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