Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

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• And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.
• Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
• A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.
• 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…
• Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in…
• As a professor in two fields, neurology and psychiatry, I am fully aware of the extent to which man is subject to biological, psychological and…
• Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great…
• As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another…
• 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…
• It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any…
• To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an…
• No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
• Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
• To be sure, man's search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental…
• Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
• Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions of others and…
• Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
• I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the…
• In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
• I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously…

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