Man's Search for Meaning

In the concentration camp every circumstance conspires to make the prisoner lose his hold. All the familiar goals in life are snatched away. What alone remains is "the last of human freedoms" - the ability to "choose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved

its inmates were under his protection. The delegate billeted

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings

it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us

Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct

Now, being free, they thought they could use their freedom "licentiously and ruthlessly. The only thing that had changed for them was that they were now the oppressors instead of the oppressed. They became instigators, not objects, of willful force and injustice