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Viktor Frankl
Austrian-born American psychologist and author; survived incarceration in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II; b. 1905; d. 1997
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# · Not So Good (77 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked throughout the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, in Success and Failure
Man's Search for Meaning (paperback)# · Not So Good (17 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of life is, but rather recognize that it is he who is asked.
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