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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
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Vienna
Austria
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl
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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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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
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No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.
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Somewhere I heard a victorious Yes in answer to my question of the existence of ultimate purpose.
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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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Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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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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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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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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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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What is to give light must endure burning.
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Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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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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Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.
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You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me - and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed 2. by experiencing a value and 3. by suffering.
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And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.
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Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.
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