Viktor Frankl
Austrian · 1905–1997
Psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor who founded logotherapy, arguing that the search for meaning is the primary motivation of human life.
Wikipedia ↗“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
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Man's Search for Meaning ↗ (1946)
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.”
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Man's Search for Meaning ↗ (1946)
“For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour.”
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Man's Search for Meaning ↗ (1946)
“Eine abnormale Reaktion auf eine abnormale Situation ist normales Verhalten.”
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“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
Man's Search for Meaning ↗ (1946)
“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.”
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Man's Search for Meaning ↗ (1946)
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
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