16 Quotes by Viktor E. Frankl about Psychology


  • Author Viktor E. Frankl
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    What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.

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    Не, благодаря – мисли той, – наместо възможности аз имам реални неща в моето минало, не само реалността на свършената работа и на изживяната любов, но и на храбро понесените страдания. Дори тези страдания са онова, с което се гордея най-много, макар и да не могат да възбудят завист.

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    Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.

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    The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.

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    The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.

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    Ficamos conhecendo o ser humano como talvez nenhuma geração humana antesde nós. O que é, então, um ser humano? É o ser que sempre decide o que ele é. É oser que inventou as câmaras de gás; mas é também aquele ser que entrou nascâmaras de gás, ereto, com uma oração nos lábios.

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  • Author Viktor E. Frankl
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    Ficamos conhecendo o ser humano como talvez nenhuma geração humana antes de nós. O que é, então, um ser humano? É o ser que sempre decide o que ele é. É o ser que inventou as câmaras de gás; mas é também aquele ser que entrou nas câmaras de gás, ereto, com uma oração nos lábios.

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