Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning.

Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.

The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.

Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.

It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.

The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.