Quotes About Introspection

Live as if you living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.

Live as if you are living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.

Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now. In

El hombre que se dejaba vencer por la ausencia de futuro ocupaba su mente con pensamientos retrospectivos. Ya me he referido a la tendencia a refugiarse en el pasado para apaciguar el horror del presente haciéndolo menos real. Pero

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

Just as the boomerang returns to the hunter who has thrown it, only if it has missed its target, man returns to himself, reflects upon himself and becomes over-concerned with self-interpretation only when he has missed his mission, and has been frustrated in his search for meaning.

H]uman freedom implies man's capacity to detach himself from himself.

W]hat matters is not the meaning of man's life in general. To look for the general meaning of man's life would be comparable to the question put to a chess player: "What is the best move?" There is no move at all, irrespective of the concrete situation of a special game. The same holds for human existence inasmuch as one can search only for the concrete meaning of personal existence, a meaning which changes from man to man, from day to day, from hour to hour.

S]elf-transcendence is one of the basic features of human existence. Only as man withdraws from himself in the sense of releasing self-centered interest and attention will he gain an authentic mode of existence.

There is no conceivable human condition in which man may be relieved of the tension between what he has done and, on the other hand, what he must yet do or should have done.

man who let himself decline because he could not see any future goal found himself occupied with retrospective thoughts. In a different connection, we have already spoken of the tendency there was to look into the past, to help make the present, with all its horrors, less real. But

Due to the essentially self-transcendent quality of human existence man is a being reaching out beyond himself.

It was Kierkegaard who told the wise parable that the door to happiness always opens 'outwards', which means it closes itself precisely against the person who tries to push the door to happiness 'inwards', so to speak.

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time wrongly as you are about to act now

To have a good conscience can never be the basis of a morally good existence; it is, rather, the result.

We do not ask life what the meaning of life is. Life asks us, what is the meaning of your life. And life demands our answer.

This emphasis on responsibleness is reflected in the categorical imperative of logotherapy, which is: 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!

Between stimulus and response, there is space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.

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!...imagine first that the present is past and, second, that the past may yet be changed and amended.

What matters is not the features of our character or the drives and instincts per se, but rather the stand we take toward them. And the capacity to take such a stand is what makes us human beings.

Si existe Dios, estoy convencido de que no tomará a mal que alguien lo intercambie con el propio Yo y se dirija a Él como a un Tú.

U ?oveku se kriju obe mogu?nosti: svinja i svetac. Šta ?e neko ostvariti zavisi od njegovih odluka, a ne od uslova. Viktor Frankl: Zašto se niste ubili

When a person cannot find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure

la vida no se trata de dar sentido, sino de encontrar sentido. La vida no es ningún test de Rorschach, sino un cuadro enigmático. El sentido de la vida no puede idearse, hay que descubrirlo.