Quotes by Viktor Frankl

 hch-freud-museum HCH 13 / November 2016  

Quotes by Viktor Frankl

“… man is revealed as a being in search for meaning”, “Preface”, The Unheard Cry for Meaning. New York: Touchstone, 1978, p. 17

“… life is potentially meaningful under any conditions, even those which are most miserable”, “The Case for a Tragic Optimism” (Postscript 1984 -Chapter originally written in English by Viktor Frankl, based on a lecture of 1983–), in Man’s Search for Meaning (Part One translated by Ilse Lasch). Boston: Beacon, 2006, p. 137

“What counts is not our fears and anxieties as such, but the attitude we adopt towards them”, The Unheard Cry for Meaning. New York: Touchstone, 1978, p. 49

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(Viktor Frankl. Origami hearts by Yael Streett Tejeda. Photo by Antonia Tejeda Barros, Madrid, 2016)