Week 13 · western

Viktor Frankl

Viktor Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist who survived four concentration camps, including Auschwitz. His wife, his parents, and his brother all died in the Holocaust. After liberation, he wrote Man's Search for Meaning in nine days. The book has sold over 16 million copies, and its central argument is one of the most tested ideas in human history...people can endure almost anything if they can find meaning in it.

“"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." He earned the right to say that. Very few people in history have.”