Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche, a daring thinker of the late nineteenth century, put it best in his famous aphorism: “Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.” His idea that adversity has a positive value was new.

“He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how,”

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.

As we said before, any attempt to restore a man’s inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal. Nietzsche’s words, “He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how,” could be the guiding motto for all psychotherapeutic and psychohygienic efforts regarding prisoners. Whenever there was an opportunity for