Quotes About Philosophy

He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how," could be the guiding motto for all psychotherapeutic

far we have shown that the meaning of life always changes, but that it never ceases to be. According to logotherapy, we can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by creating a work or doing a deed; (2)

For us, the meaning of life embraced the wider cycles of life and death, of suffering and of dying.

SuferinÈ›a omului se aseam?n? cu comportamentul gazului. Dac? se pompeaz? o anumit? cantitate de gaz într-o înc?pere goal?, gazul va umple camera complet È™i uniform, indiferent de cât de mare ar fi ea. Tot astfel, suferinÈ›a umple întru totul sufletul uman È™i gândirea conÈ™tient?, indiferent dac? e vorba de o suferin?? mare sau de una mic?. De aceea, m?rimea suferinÈ›ei umane este absolut relativ?.

our current mental-hygiene philosophy stresses the idea that people ought to be happy, that unhappiness is a symptom of maladjustment. Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy."4

And I quoted from Nietzsche: "Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker." (That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.)

In other words, life's meaning is an unconditional one, for it even includes the potential meaning of unavoidable suffering.

the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

This ultimate meaning necessarily exceeds and surpasses the finite intellectual capacities of man; in logotherapy, we speak in this context of a super-meaning. What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms. Logos is deeper than logic.

el hombre no debería cuestionarse sobre el sentido de la vida, sino comprender que la vida le interroga a él. En otras palabras, la vida pregunta por el hombre, cuestiona al hombre, y éste contesta de una única manera: respondiendo de su propia vida y con su propia vida.

It was in the nature of this sacrifice that it should appear to be pointless in the normal world, the world of material success.

But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to be happy. Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically

What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness

quoted from Nietzsche: "Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker." (That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.)

is one of the basic tenets of logotherapy that man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain

meaning is possible even in spite of suffering—provided, certainly, that the suffering is unavoidable.

rather to see a meaning in his life. That is why man is even ready to suffer, on the condition, to be sure, that his suffering has a

sub specie aeternitatis.

Hayat?n anlam? insandan insana, günden güne ve hatta saatler içinde deÄŸiÅŸebilir. O yüzden de önemli olan genel olarak hayat?n anlam? deÄŸil, insan?n hayat?n?n verili bir andaki özel anlam?d?r.

The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

we give our suffering meaning by the way in which we respond to it.

Schopenhauer cuando afirmaba que, aparentemente, la humanidad estaba condenada a oscilar eternamente entre los extremos de la tensión y el aburrimiento.

We have come to recognize that this is a profoundly religious book. It insists that life is meaningful and that we must learn to see life as meaningful despite our circumstances. It emphasizes that there is an ultimate purpose to life.

Tenemos que dejar de hacernos preguntas sobre el significado de la vida y, en vez de ello, pensar en nosotros como en seres a quienes la vida les inquiriera continua e incesantemente.