Sublime

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.

self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.

“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.

the logotherapist is concerned with the potential meaning inherent and dormant in all the single situations one has to face throughout his or her life.

A man who let himself decline because he could not see any future goal found himself occupied with retrospective thoughts.

think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.

“He who has a Why to

the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.