We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.

The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.

Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.

It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that 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.

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions of others and neglects the meaning of his own personal life. Hence he sees his own life as meaningless and falls into the “existential vacuum” feeling inner void. Progressive automation causes increasing alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and suicide.