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Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl
If a prisoner felt that he could no longer endure the realities of camp life, he found a way out in his mental life — an invaluable opportunity to dwell in the spiritual domain, the one that the SS were unable to destroy. Spiritual life strengthened the prisoner, helped him adapt, and thereby improved his chances of survival.
One should always strive for knowledge so that ignorance never touches him.
Truth |
During war times not only one should himself take part in it but also encourage the courageous to do so by creating awareness, zeal and enthusiasm for the war in the society.
Responsibility | Truth | Waiting | War |
Just as the Sun is respected for providing heat and energy to the world, in the same manner you too can attain respect in this world by acquiring knowledge.
May there be no difference of opinion or discord in a nation. May the intellect and thoughts of people create harmony.
Truth |
Victor Borge, born Børge Rosenbaum
The Steinway people have asked me to announce that this is a Baldwin piano. (Just before starting a piece)
Lying |
Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl
The question was whether an ape which was being used to develop a poliomyelitis serum, and for this reason punctured again and again, would ever be able to grasp the meaning of its suffering. Unanimously, the group replied that of course it would not; with its limited intelligence, it could not enter into the world of man, i.e., the only world in which the meaning of its suffering would be understandable. Then I pushed forward with the following question: ‘And what about man? Are you sure that the the human world is a terminal point in the evolution of the cosmos? Is it not conceivable that there is still another dimension, a world beyond man’s world; a world in which the question of an ultimate meaning of human suffering would find an answer?
Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl
After all, man is that being who has invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who has entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or Shema Yisrael on his lips.
Achievement | Angels | Belief | Contemplation | Life | Life | Love | Man | Meaning | Nothing | Poetry | Position | Right | Salvation | Thought | Time | Truth | Wisdom | World | Contemplation | Thought | Understand |
One should always ensure a pure environment while making food. One should never prepare food with dirty hands. This could lead to a number of ailments and make the body weak.
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
Truth |
A pure heart is all that one needs to perform good deeds.
When birds desire to chirp, lustily desire to chirp, may my call go there, as an arrow-point upon the shaft.
With seven wheels does this Time ride, seven naves has he, immortality is his axle. He carries hither all these beings (worlds). Time, the first god, now hastens onward.
Mind | Truth | Understand |
Things that I could get done, I do not entrust to others; I do them myself, so that they may learn self-reliance and get experience thereby.
Truth |