Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl, 1946
A psychiatrist who survived Auschwitz argues that meaning — not pleasure or power — is what keeps a person alive, and that it can be found even in suffering.
Viktor E. Frankl
Already a neurologist with a visa to America in 1941, Frankl let it expire to stay near his elderly parents; they were deported together the following year.
Feels like hope, unease and death.
The people who hold the world together are never the majority.
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. Books by Viktor E. Frankl
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