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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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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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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The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
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A human being is not one thing among others things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
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Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Either belief in God is unconditional or it is no belief at all.
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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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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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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
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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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Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us rather, these conditions are subject to our decision ... we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
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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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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.
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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations. But as for myself, I would not be willing to live merely for the sake of my defense mechanisms, nor would I be ready to die merely for the sake of my reaction formations.
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