The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.