Sublime

(Logotherapy, indeed, is a meaning-centered psychotherapy.)

Man can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom, of independence of mind, even in such terrible conditions of psychic and physical stress.

live for can bear almost any How.”

“The last of human freedoms is the ability to choose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances.”1 The guards could not take from Frankl his freedom to choose his attitude.

Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life. Frankl saw three possible sources for meaning: in work (doing something significant), in love (caring for another person), and in courage during

man does not live by welfare alone.

Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

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.

reason I speak of a tragic optimism,