Viktor Frankl

A man who could not see the end of his ‘provisional existence’ was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

Viktor Frankl

A man’s character became involved to the point that he was caught in a mental turmoil which threatened all the values he held and threw them into doubt.

Viktor Frankl

A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

Viktor Frankl

A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is.

Viktor Frankl

According to logotherapy, we can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by creating a work or doing a deed; (2) by experiencing something or encountering someone; and (3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering.

Viktor Frankl

After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

Viktor Frankl

All we can do is study the lives of people who seem to have found their answers to the questions of what ultimately human life is about as against those who have not.

Viktor Frankl

As long as a self is driven by an id to a Thou, it is not a matter of love, either. In love the self is not driven by the id, but rather the self chooses the Thou.

Viktor Frankl

As soon as the patient stops fighting his obsessions and instead tries to ridicule them by dealing with them in an ironic way – by applying paradoxical intention – the vicious circle is cut, the symptom diminishes and finally atrophies.

Viktor Frankl

As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Viktor Frankl