Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.


Victor Frankl

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Confounding the dignity of man with mere usefulness arises from a conceptual confusion that in turn ...
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Shortly before the United States entered World War II, I received an invitation to come to the Ameri...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL
But one thing I beg of you”; he continued, “shave daily, if at all possible, even if you have to...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL
I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.
VICTOR CRUZ
One of the reasons I love devils so much is not based in my faith, but because as a kid, I grew up l...
VICTOR LAVALLE
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
VICTOR HUGO
No one can keep a secret better than a child.
VICTOR HUGO
There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
VICTOR HUGO
But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
VICTOR HUGO
A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
VICTOR HUGO
One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
VICTOR HUGO
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
VICTOR HUGO
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
VICTOR HUGO
One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to ...
VICTOR HUGO
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
VICTOR HUGO
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
VICTOR HUGO
I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
VICTOR HUGO
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
VICTOR HUGO
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even t...
VICTOR HUGO
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman...
VICTOR HUGO
The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
VICTOR HUGO
Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that...
VICTOR HUGO
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
VICTOR HUGO
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
VICTOR HUGO
Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
VICTOR HUGO
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
VICTOR HUGO
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be...
VICTOR HUGO
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
VICTOR HUGO
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes...
VICTOR HUGO
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad inst...
VICTOR HUGO
To love another person is to see the face of God.
VICTOR HUGO
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
VICTOR HUGO
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO
Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man him...
VICTOR HUGO
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
VICTOR HUGO
One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
VICTOR HUGO
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
VICTOR HUGO
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
VICTOR HUGO
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
VICTOR HUGO
Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
VICTOR HUGO
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, ...
VICTOR HUGO
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
VICTOR HUGO
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
VICTOR HUGO
To contemplate is to look at shadows.
VICTOR HUGO