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Viktor E. Frankl quotes

Austrian Psychologist March 26, 1905 – September 2, 1997

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Viktor E. Frankl quote: "Man is capable of changing the world for the better if..."
Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary. Viktor E. Frankl
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Viktor E. Frankl
For too long a time--for half a century, in fact--psychiatry tried to interpret the human mind merely as a mechanism, and consequently the therapy of mental disease merely in terms of technique. I believe this dream has been dreamt out. What now begins to loom on the horizon is not psychologized medicine but rather those of human psychiatry. Viktor E. Frankl
Sigmund Freud once asserted, "Let one attempt to expose a number of the most diverse people uniformly to hunger. With the increase of the imperative urge of hunger all individual differences will blur, and in their stead will appear the uniform expression of the one unstilled urge." Thank heaven, Sigmund Freud was spared knowing the concentration camps from the inside. His subjects lay on a couch designed in the plush style of Victorian culture, not in the filth of Auschwitz. There, the... Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor E. Frankl quote: "I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a..."
I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one. Viktor E. Frankl
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him. Viktor E. Frankl
To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative. Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor E. Frankl quote: "In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and..."
In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious. Viktor E. Frankl
Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp. Viktor E. Frankl
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. Viktor E. Frankl
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. Viktor E. Frankl
Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now. Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor E. Frankl quote: "Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you..."
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time. Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor E. Frankl quote: "Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as..."
Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn. Viktor E. Frankl
Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the 'size' of human suffering is absolutely relative". Viktor E. Frankl

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