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Viktor Frankl — Portrait after a picture by Prof. Dr. Franz Vesely (CC BY-SA 3.0 de), via Wikimedia Commons. This drawing is shared under the same licence.

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Viktor Frankl

Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author

1905–1997

4 quotes, most often on Life & Death.

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death.
Man’s Search for Meaning (1946; 1959; 1984), p. 67 in the 1959 Beacon Press edition
- Life & Death
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of.
And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
Postscript 1984: The Case for a Tragic Optimism, based on a lecture at the Third World Congress of Logotherapy, Regensburg University (19 June 1983)
- Good & Evil
- War & Peace
There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.
Man’s Search for Meaning (1946; 1959; 1984), p. 126 in the 1984 Pocket Books edition
- Life & Death
The truth — that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
Man’s Search for Meaning (1946)
- Love

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