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Rather Quotes by Viktor E. Frankl
- 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…
- The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
- Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
- We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.
- Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in the…
- Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
- For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the…
- It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning…
- 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…
- To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
- Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.
- The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he…
- What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to…
- The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
- 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…
- 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 not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words,…
More Rather Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott