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 grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLI am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
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It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.
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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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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 meaning in life in a general way.
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There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.
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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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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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