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by Arthur Worsley
M.A. Psychology, Oxford. McKinsey Alum. Founder & Editor at TAoL.

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1. Who Was Viktor E. Frankl?
2. The Best Viktor E. Frankl Books of All Time
3. More Books Like Viktor E. Frankl's Books
4. Best Viktor E. Frankl Quotes
5. Wish There Was a Faster/Easier Way?

Who Was Viktor E. Frankl?

Viktor E. Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997) was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor best known for his book Man's Search for Meaning. He was the founder of logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force.

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The Best Viktor E. Frankl Books of All Time

Why these best Viktor E. Frankl books and not others? To stay objective, I rank all my book recommendations by a combination of what’s most loved (Goodreads rating), what’s most popular (Goodreads review count) and what’s proven timlessly relevant (first publication date).

This isn’t a whimsical list. It’s a data-driven, crowdsourced collection of the best Viktor E. Frankl books ever published as decided by book lovers like you.

And if you think something's missing? I LOVE book recommendations so if there are any other books by Viktor E. Frankl that you think deserve mentioning, email me and I’ll be sure to include them in the next round of updates.

Until then, here are the best Viktor E. Frankl books of all time...

Best Viktor Frankl Books: Man's Search for Meaning
1. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl (FREE Summary)
Man's Search for Meaning is a gruelling, yet deeply liberating insight into the why behind each of our whats and hows - by holocaust survivor, psychologist and founder of logotherapy, Viktor Frankl.
Published 1946 // 165 pages // Rated 4.4 over 526,900 reviews on Goodreads
Best Viktor Frankl Books: Yes to Life
2. Yes to Life - Viktor E. Frankl
In Spite of Everything
Published 1946 // 144 pages // Rated 4.3 over 4,400 reviews on Goodreads
Best Viktor Frankl Books: The Will to Meaning
3. The Will to Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy
Published 1969 // 208 pages // Rated 4.3 over 3,100 reviews on Goodreads
Best Viktor Frankl Books: The Doctor and the Soul
4. The Doctor and the Soul - Viktor E. Frankl
From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy
Published 1946 // 352 pages // Rated 4.2 over 1,400 reviews on Goodreads
Best Viktor Frankl Books: Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning
5. Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
Published 1974 // 208 pages // Rated 4.0 over 3,500 reviews on Goodreads

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Best Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

Here are some of the best Viktor E. Frankl of all time...

"The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom."

- Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

"Don’t aim at success – the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it."

- Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

"An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behaviour."

- Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

"The most painful part of beatings is the insult which they imply."

- Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

"No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honest whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same thing."

- Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

"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, to choose one’s own way... It is this spiritual freedom – which cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful."

- Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

"We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life and instead to think of ourselves as those who are being questioned by life."

- Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

"Progressive automation will probably lead to an enormous increase in the leisure hours available to the average worker. The pity of it is that many of these will not know what to do with all their newly acquired free time."

- Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

"The Meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour… what matters, therefore is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment."

- Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

"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!"

- Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

"We can discover the meaning of life in three different ways: (1) by creating a work or doing a deed; (2) by experiencing something or encountering someone; and (3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering."

- Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

"To suffer unnecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic."

- Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

"The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which he daily tears a sheet, grows thinner with each passing day. On the other hand, the person who attacks the problems of life actively is like a man who removes each successive leaf from his calendar and files it neatly and carefully away with its predecessors, after first having jotted down a few diary notes on the back."

- Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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