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Best One Quotes by Viktor E. Frankl
- For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a…
- 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…
- Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly…
- ...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself—be it meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The…
- To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- One evening, when we were already resting on the floor of our hut, dead tired, soup bowls in hand, a fellow prisoner rushed in and…
- Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given…
- The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle