Man's Search for Meaning / Ultimate Meaning / The Choice Quotes

“Niekas neturi teisės elgtis neteisingai, net ir tas, kuris pats neteisybę patyrė.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning / Ultimate Meaning / The Choice

“(About conscience - sense of right / wrong)
No one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there is a repressed angel.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning / Ultimate Meaning / The Choice

“Where the spiritual self steeps itself in
its unconscious depths, there occur the phenomena of
conscience, love, and art. Where it happens the other way
around... we have to
deal with a neurosis or a psychosis, depending on whether the case is psychogenic or somatogenic.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning / Ultimate Meaning / The Choice

“And just as the animal is at times misled by the vital instincts, so may man go astray... whereas the ethical instinct alone enables him to discover the unique requirement of a unique situation”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning / Ultimate Meaning / The Choice

“So conscience is essentially intuitive. To anticipate what is not yet, but is to be made real, conscience must be based on intuition. And it is in this sense that conscience
may be called irrational.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning / Ultimate Meaning / The Choice

“However, the spirit is unconsdous not only where it
originates, that is, in its depth, but also in its height. In
fact, that which has to decide whether something is to be
conscious or unconscious is itself unconscious. Just consider the fact that there is something in the sleeping man
that decides whether or not he should continue sleeping.
This guard, for example, has the sleeping mother awake
as soon as the breathing of her child becomes irregular,
whereas she sleeps through loud noises from the street.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning / Ultimate Meaning / The Choice

“Precisely at the place of its origin, the retina of the
eye has a "blind spot," where the optic nerve enters the
eyeball. Likewise, the spirit is "blind" precisely at its origin-precisely there, no self-observation, no mirroring of
itself is possible; where the spirit is "original" spirit,
where it is fully itself, precisely there it is also unconscious of itself. We may therefore fully subscribe to what
has been said in the Indian Vedas: "That which does the
seeing, cannot be seen; that which does the hearing, cannot be heard; and that which does the thinking, cannot be
thought.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning / Ultimate Meaning / The Choice

“Man exists authentically only when he is not driven, but, rather, responsible.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning / Ultimate Meaning / The Choice