Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLMan’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
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A man who could not see the end of his”provisional existence” was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents…Sometimes the ‘unfinisheds’ are among the most beautiful symphonies.
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A human being is a deciding being.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies
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No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.
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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.
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Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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