Viktor Frankl citáty strana 2 32 citátů o účelu, odolnosti a hledání smyslu života

„I z kamení, které ti někdo nahrnul do cesty, můžeš postavit katedrálu.“

„Snad ještě žádná generace nepoznala člověka tak, jak ho poznala generace naše. Co tedy je člověk? Je to bytost, která vynalezla spalovací pece. Je však současně i bytostí, která šla do plynových komor vzpřímeně a s modlitbou na rtech.“

Zdroj: [Kosová, Martina, Logoterapie, Grada, Praha, 2014, 978-80-247-4346-2, 93]

Viktor Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: FRANKL, Viktor E., A přesto říci životu ano, Karmelitánské nakladatelství Kostelní Vydří, 1996, ISBN 80-7192-095-9

„Člověk je připraven a ochoten přijmout jakékoliv utrpení, jakmile a dokud je schopen v něm vidět nějaký smysl.“

„Vidím v tom skutečnou výzvu připojit se k této menšině (slušných lidí a světců). Neboť svět je ve špatném stavu, ale všechno bude ještě horší, pokud každý z nás neudělá to nejlepší. A tak tedy buďme bdělí - bdělí ve dvojím smyslu: Od Osvětimi víme, čeho je člověk schopen. A od Hirošimy víme, co vše je v sázce.“

„Na zemi existují dvě lidské rasy, ale jen tyto dvě: rasa lidí řádných a rasa lidí neřádných.“

Zdroj: [Kosová, Martina, Logoterapie, Grada, Praha, 2014, 978-80-247-4346-2]

Viktor Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Man's Search for Meaning

„Úloha každého člověka je stejně jedinečná, jako je jedinečná jeho příležitost ji splnit.“

„Štěstí vznikne jako vedlejší produkt, pokud zvolíte správnou cestu.“

„Abnormální reakcí na abnormální situaci je normální chování.“

Zdroj: https://youtu.be/6vk6wsLAYKU?t=2017

„Podstata lidské existence spočívá v její sebetranscendenci. Být člověkem znamená vždy už být zaměřen a nastaven na něco nebo někoho, být oddán nějakému dílu.“

„V některých ohledech utrpení přestává být utrpením v okamžiku, kdy najde smysl, například smysl oběti.“

„Zakouším pravdu, že láska je nějak poslední a nejvyšší, k čemu se člověk může vzepnout… Chápu, že člověk, i když mu už na tomto světě nezbývá vůbec nic, může být blažený (byť i jen na okamžik), je-li ve svém nejhlubším nitru oddán obrazu milovaného člověka.“

„Když člověk nemůže najít hluboký smysl, rozptýlí se potěšením.“

„O štěstí se nedá usilovat, musí přijít samo.“

„To, co mě nezabije, mě posiluje.“

“To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.”

Viktor Frankl: Citáty anglicky

“The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear anymore—except his God.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Varianta: To Suffer unnecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning

“Fear makes come true that which one is afraid of.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning

“Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning

“If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death.”

“Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning (1946; 1959; 1984), p. 67 in the 1959 Beacon Press edition

“The truth-that love is the highest goal to which man can aspire.”

“Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning

“The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning

“At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.”

“In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning

“The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.”

Zdroj: Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning

“Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning

“There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.”

Zdroj: Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust

“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning (1946; 1959; 1984), p. 126 in the 1984 Pocket Books edition

“That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Man's Search for Meaning (1946; 1959; 1984)

“In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”

“You may of course ask whether we really need to refer to "saints."”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning

“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?”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

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.

“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!”

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?

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

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning

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

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

“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.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning

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

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning

“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.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning

“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.”

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

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning

“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.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning

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