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Viktor Frankl

Viktor Frankl

Birthname

Birthday March 26, 1905

Birthplace Leopoldstadt, Vienna, Austria-Hungary

Death September 2, 1997

Nationality Austria

Occupations Physician, University Teacher, Educationist, Psychotherapist, Psychiatrist

Total quotes (13)

Being tolerant does not mean that I share another’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.

— Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy

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It can have meaning if it changes you for the better.

— Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy

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When we are no longer able to change a situation–just think of an incurable disease such as inoperable cancer–we are challenged to change ourselves.

— Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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As the boomerang comes back to the hunter who has thrown it only if it has missed its target, man, too, returns to himself and is intent upon self-actualization only if he has missed his mission.

— Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy

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Procreation is not the only meaning of life, for then life in itself would become meaningless, and something which in itself is meaningless cannot be rendered meaningful merely by its perpetuation.

— Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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If I don't do it—who will do it? And if I don't do it right now—when should I do it? But if I do it for my own sake only—what am I?

— Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy (Meridian S) (Rei Exp)

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There is a subject nowadays which is taboo in the way that sexuality was once taboo; which is to talk about life as if it had any meaning.

— Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy (Meridian S) (Rei Exp)

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Man, by having become a human being, in no way ceases to remain an animal, anymore than an airplane ceases to be capable of moving around the ground of the airport.

— Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy (Meridian S) (Rei Exp)

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There may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms–to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

— Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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What is to give light must endure burning.

— Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

— Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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What then is the meaning of money, or for that matter, the meaning of possessing money? Most of those people who possess it are really possessed by it, obsessing by the urge to multiply it, and thus they nullify its meaning. For the possession of money should mean that one is in a fortunate position. One can afford to pay no attention to money, the means, but rather to pursue the ends themselves—those ends that money should serve.

— Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy

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Pleasure, rather than being the end of man's striving, is actually the effect of meaning fulfillment. And power, rather than being an end in itself, is actually the means to an end; if man is to live out his will to meaning, a certain amount of power–day financial power–by and large will be an indispensable prerequisite. Only if one's original concern with meaning fulfillment is frustrated is one either content with power or intent on pleasure.

— Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy

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Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

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Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other….

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The government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war, and major social transformations to attain the system of constitutional government and its respect for the freedoms and individual rights, we hold as fundamental today.

— Thurgood Marshall, Thurgood Marshall Quotes

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We have to be as passionate, if not more passionate, about our responsibilities as we are about our rights. I have a right to free speech, but I also have a responsibility to be humane and productive with what I speak.

— Bernice King, via twitter.com

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The rights which belong to us as a nation are not alone to be regarded, but those which pertain to every citizen in this individual capacity, at home and abroad, must be sacredly maintained.

— Franklin Pierce, Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce

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A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box. Let no man be kept from the ballot box because of his color. Let no woman be kept from the ballot box because of her sex.

— Frederick Douglass, via en.wikiquote.org

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