Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair.

Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.

Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

Usually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he had salvaged once and for all his deeds, his joys and also his sufferings. Nothing can be undone, and nothing can be done away with. I should say having been is the surest kind of being.

In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.