The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
VIKTOR E. FRANKLA man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”
More Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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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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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
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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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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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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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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
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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.
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It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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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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