Postscript 1984 : The Case for a Tragic Optimism, based on a lecture at the Third World Congress of Logotherapy, Regensburg University (19 June 1983)
Man's Search for Meaning (1946; 1959; 1984)
Kontext: You may of course ask whether we really need to refer to "saints." Wouldn't it suffice just to refer to decent people? It is true that they form a minority. More than that, they always will remain a minority. And yet I see therein the very challenge to join the minority. For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
So, let us be alert — alert in a twofold sense:
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of.
And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

“But we cannot “give” meaning to the life of others. And if this is true of meaning per se, how much does it hold for Ultimate Meaning?”

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Viktor E. Frankl

Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning (1997)
Kontext: It is true, Logotherapy, deals with the Logos; it deals with Meaning. Specifically I see Logotherapy in helping others to see meaning in life. But we cannot “give” meaning to the life of others. And if this is true of meaning per se, how much does it hold for Ultimate Meaning?

“So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”

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Viktor E. Frankl kniha Man's Search for Meaning

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“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.”

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Viktor E. Frankl

“If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.”

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Viktor E. Frankl

“A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.”

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“I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.”

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“Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.”

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“For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.”

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Viktor E. Frankl

“Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.”

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“There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose”

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“A life of short duration… could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.”

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Viktor E. Frankl

“Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of.
And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.”

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Postscript 1984 : The Case for a Tragic Optimism, based on a lecture at the Third World Congress of Logotherapy, Regensburg University (19 June 1983)
Varianta: So, let us be alert in a twofold sense: Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning (1946; 1959; 1984)
Kontext: You may of course ask whether we really need to refer to "saints." Wouldn't it suffice just to refer to decent people? It is true that they form a minority. More than that, they always will remain a minority. And yet I see therein the very challenge to join the minority. For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
So, let us be alert — alert in a twofold sense:
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of.
And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.