568 Quotes by Viktor E. Frankl

Those things which seem to take meaning away from human life include not only suffering but dying as well. I never tire of saying that the only really transitory aspects of life are the potentialities; but as soon as they are actualized, they are rendered realities at that very moment; they are saved and delivered into the past, wherein they are rescued and preserved from transitoriness. For, in the past, nothing is irretrievably lost but everything irrevocably stored.

Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual. These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning of life in a general way.

If there is a meaning in life at all, than there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete

الحرية الروحية، و هي التي لا يمكن سلبها من الإنسان، و هي التي تجعل الحياة ذات معنى و ذات هدف

But even one such example is sufficient proof that man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

El hombre que se levanta es aún más fuerte que el que no ha caído

A medida que la vida interior de los prisioneros se hacía más intensa, sentíamostambién la belleza del arte y la naturaleza como nunca hasta entonces. Bajo su influenciallegábamos a olvidarnos de nuestras terribles circunstancias.

En esos momentos no es el dolor físico lo que más hiere, sino la humillación y la indignación provocadas por la injusticia, por la cruda irracionalidad de todo aquello.

O bien se reconoce la libertad decisoria del hombre a favor o en contra de los hombres o toda educación es una ilusión.