Viktor E. Frankl

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Viktor Frankl was an Austrian doctor and philosopher who survived the Holocaust and created logotherapy, a type of psychotherapy that focuses on finding meaning in life.

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About Viktor E. Frankl

He worked as a neurologist and psychiatrist, and his logotherapy is part of existential and humanistic psychology.

Quotes by Viktor E. Frankl · Page 6

Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.

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Death

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It said to me, 'I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.'

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Eternal

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

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No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.

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“Fear makes come true that which one is afraid of.”

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“Nietzsche, “He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How.”

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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.

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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…

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Adventure

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Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

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Caring

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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…

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Computers

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It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning…

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Encounters

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“I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsiblity on the West Coast.”

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East coast

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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.

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When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

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Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly…

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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…

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Adler

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“It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future—sub specie aeternitatis. And this is his…

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Peculiarity

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“It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future - sub specie aeternitatis. And this…

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Difficult moments

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A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by…

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“There is nothing in this world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions…

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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future...And this is his salvation in the…

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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…

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Bears

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“We have come to know Man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of…

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Auschwitz

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When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his…

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Bears

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“that, in spite of this, I had no intention of losing hope and giving up. For no man knew what the future…

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Hope

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“If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load which is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are…

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Arch

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“It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self-preservation he may forget his human dignity and become…

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Dignity

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“In a different connection, we have already spoken of the tendency there was to look into the past, to help make the…

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Time

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Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man-his courage and hope, or lack of…

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Body

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“It is very difficult for an outsider to grasp how very little value was placed on human life in camp. The camp…

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Human existence

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Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible…

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Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.

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Existence

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“But Frankl’s concern is less with the question of why most died than it is with the question of why anyone at…

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Death

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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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“Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about…

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“No-one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there…

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Angel

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Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.

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Actualization

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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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Art

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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…

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The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.

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Viktor E. Frankl by topic

Life (127) Men (53) Meaning (50) Suffering (49) Search for meaning (37) Love (34) Time (33) Mans search for meaning (33) Happiness (29) Inspirational (27) Freedom (27) Meaning of life (24) Humans (21) Purpose (20) Success (19) Goals (18) Concentration camp (18) Psychology (16)