"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any gi…"

"The selection process was the signal for a free fight among all the prisoners, or group against group."

"Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now."

"The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, giv…"

"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked.…"

"A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, procl…"

"Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully a…"

"What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him…"

"A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or …"

"...the story of the young woman whose death I witnessed in a concentration camp. It is a simple story. There is littl…"