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Viktor Frankl on fatherhood, character, and how to live

5 sourced quotes from Viktor Frankl, each with the original work, the year, and links to a primary or scholarly source you can check yourself. Selected for what they say to a man raising children.

“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.”
Man's Search for Meaning, 1946
“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…”
Man's Search for Meaning, 1946
“A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will…”
Man's Search for Meaning, 1946
“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.”
Man's Search for Meaning, Part One, 1946
“Man can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom, of independence of mind, even in such terrible conditions of psychic and physical stress.”
Man's Search for Meaning, Part One, 1946

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Works quoted here: Man's Search for Meaning, Man's Search for Meaning, Part One.