Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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Man’s last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation
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Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
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One can choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
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There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.
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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
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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.
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