Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.

I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.