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Viktor Frankl

1905–1997

Psychiatrist of logotherapy

Man’s Search for Meaning is a survivor’s book that became a method. The last of the human freedoms, he says, is to choose one’s attitude. He is careful, in the better passages, not to turn other people’s suffering into a lesson they did not ask to teach.

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  1. Everything can be taken 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.Man’s Search for Meaning

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