Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Quote of the Day #49
Sometimes, however, it takes a lot of didactic tricks to detach people from their superstitions. An American woman once confronted me with the reproach, "How can you still write some of your books in German, Adolf Hitler's language?"
In response, I asked her if she had knives in her kitchen, and when she answered that she did, I acted dimayed and shocked, exclaiming, "How can you still use knives after so many killers have used them to stab and murder their victims?"
She stopped objecting to my writing books in German.
-- Viktor E. Frankl [survivor of the Holocaust, psychiatrist, creator of logotherapy]
Man's Search for Meaning
In response, I asked her if she had knives in her kitchen, and when she answered that she did, I acted dimayed and shocked, exclaiming, "How can you still use knives after so many killers have used them to stab and murder their victims?"
She stopped objecting to my writing books in German.
-- Viktor E. Frankl [survivor of the Holocaust, psychiatrist, creator of logotherapy]
Man's Search for Meaning
