In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLI recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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The struggle for existence is a struggle ‘for’ something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
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I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run- in the long run, I say! – success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
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Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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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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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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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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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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