Frankl, Viktor Emil

Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, psychologist, and Holocaust survivor

prisoner at Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps 1942-1945

founder of logotherapy

wrote "Man's Search for Meaning" 1946

• "The last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
• "What is to give light must endure burning."
• "Everything can be taken from a man but the last of human freedoms, the right to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances--the right to choose one's own way."
• "Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward."
• "Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it."