Viktor Frankl

Logotherapy sees the human patient in all his humanness. I step up to the core of the patient’s being. And that is a being in search of meaning, a being that is transcending himself, a being capable of acting in love for others.

Viktor Frankl

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality

Viktor Frankl

Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide

Viktor Frankl

Mental health is based on a certain degree of tension, the tension between what one has already achieved and what one still ought to accomplish, or the gap between what one is and what one should become.

Viktor Frankl

No one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them.

Viktor Frankl

No-one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there is a repressed angel.

Viktor Frankl

Not only our experiences, but all we have done, whatever great thoughts we may have had, and all we have suffered, all this is not lost, though it is past; we have brought it into being. Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.

Viktor Frankl

Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.

Viktor Frankl

Once an individual’s search for a meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering.

Viktor Frankl

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self’s actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Viktor Frankl