Victor Frankl

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Man's Search for Meaning (1955)

January 1st, 1955

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"A book you would hope every person on earth would read. How even in the face of unimaginable terror and inhumanity -- the Holocaust -- we still have a choice about how we respond. Here is Frankl’s own experience and conviction that we can hold on to our dignity and humanity even when facing almost certain death."

(This comment is from my favorite Australian bibliophile and humanitarian, Jane Sloane... TB)

Man's Search for Meaning  (1955)
I don’t think we can any longer rely on separation of powers, free speech, religious tolerance or unchallengeable civil liberties as a matter of course. That is, not while finite humans in the flux of time make decisions of infinite damage. Not while finite humans make infinite claims of virtue and unassailable power that are beyond their competence, if not their reach.

Toni Morrison, commencement address at Wellesley College, 2004