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Viktor Frankl
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“It is true, Logotherapy, deals with the Logos; it deals with Meaning. Specifically I see Logotherapy in helping others to see meaning in life. But we cannot “give” meaning to the life of others. And if this is true of meaning per se, how much does it hold for Ultimate Meaning?”
Viktor Frankl (1905–1997) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning (1997)
“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. p. 32 in the 1992 edition, , Beacon Press”
Viktor Frankl (1905–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death.”
Viktor Frankl (1905–1997) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 67 in the 1959 Beacon Press edition
“There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.”
Viktor Frankl (1905–1997) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 126 in the 1984 Pocket Books edition
“A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth — that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. 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. … For the first time in my life I was able to understand the meaning of the words, "The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.”
Viktor Frankl (1905–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, 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.”
Viktor Frankl (1905–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”
Viktor Frankl (1905–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You may of course ask whether we really need to refer to "saints." Wouldn't it suffice just to refer to decent people? It is true that they form a minority. More than that, they always will remain a minority. And yet I see therein the very challenge to join the minority. For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best. So, let us be alert — alert in a twofold sense: Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.”
Viktor Frankl (1905–1997) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Postscript 1984 : The Case for a Tragic Optimism, based on a lecture at the Third World Congress of Logotherapy, Regensburg University (19 June 1983)
“The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity — even under the most difficult circumstances — to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self-preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal. Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.”
Viktor Frankl (1905–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source