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Viktor E. Frankl
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
Kind
How can we dare to predict the behavior of man? we may predict the movements of a machine, of an automaton; more than this, we many even try to predict the mechanisms or "dynamisms" of the human psyche as well. but man is more than psyche.
Men Trying Machines
Somewhere i heard a victorious "yes" in answer to my question of the existence of ultimate purpose.
Purpose Answers Existence
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.
Lying Opportunity Men
I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost.
Attitude Suffering And Death Lasts
There is also purpose in life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral behavior: namely, in man's attitude to his existence, an existence restricted by external forces.
Life Attitude Men
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
Life Asking Mans Search For Meaning
Usually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he had salvaged once and for all his deeds, his joys and also his sufferings. nothing can be undone, and nothing can be done away with. i should say having been is the surest kind of being.
Past Men Joy
Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives. this meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning.
Motivation Unique Men
A sound philosophy of life, i think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.
Philosophy Thinking Mentor
The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.
Opportunity Suffering Unhappy
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. what he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
Men Self Limits
  • Born: March 26, 1905
  • Died: September 2, 1997
  • Occupation: M.D.
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