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Men Quotes by Viktor E. Frankl
- Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge.…
- When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task. . . . He…
- What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the…
- Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
- 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…
- Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
- At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
- There is also purpose in life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral…
- As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable,
- Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man-his courage and hope, or lack of them-and the state…
- Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward faith.
- Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
- [Speaking of his experience in a concentration camp:] As we said before, any attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the camp had first…
- I would say that our patients never really despair because of any suffering in itself! Instead, their despair stems in each instance from a doubt…
- These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the…
- Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.
- 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…
- How can we dare to predict the behavior of man? We may predict the movements of a machine, of an automaton; more than this, we…
- In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might…
- I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the…
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