Viktor Frankl: Citáty v angličtine
Viktor Frankl bol rakúsky neurológ a psychiater, prežil holokaust. Citáty v angličtine.“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
Zdroj: Quoted in Man's Search for Meaning and attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche.
“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.”
Man's Search for Meaning
Varianta: But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning
“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning (1946; 1959; 1984), p. 32 in the 1992 edition, ISBN 0807014265, Beacon Press
Man's Search for Meaning (1946; 1959; 1984)
Kontext: The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity — even under the most difficult circumstances — to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self-preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal. Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
Man's Search for Meaning (1946; 1959; 1984)
Kontext: A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. 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. … For the first time in my life I was able to understand the meaning of the words, "The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory."