Quotes About Responsibility

Logotherapy tries to make the patient fully aware of his own responsibleness

Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual. These

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

As each situation in life represents a challenge to man and presents a problem for him to solve, the question of the meaning of life may actually be reversed. Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.

it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.

When the impossibility of replacing a person is realized, it allows the responsibility which a man has for his existence and its continuance to appear in all its magnitude. A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how.

Qué es, en realidad, el hombre? Es el ser que siempre decide lo que es. Es quien ha inventado las cámaras de gas, pero también el que ha entrado en ellas con paso firme, musitando una oración.

A human being is a finite thing, and his freedom is restricted. It is not freedom from conditions,but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.

Vivir significa asumir la responsabilidad de encontrar la respuesta correcta a los problemas que ello plantea y cumplir las tareas que la vida asigna continuamente a cada individuo.

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. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth.

freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.

emphasis on responsibleness is reflected in the categorical imperative of logotherapy, which is: "Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!" It

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.

Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.

O bien se reconoce la libertad decisoria del hombre a favor o en contra de los hombres o toda educación es una ilusión.

El hombre que se hace consciente de su responsabilidad ante el ser humano que le espera con todo su afecto o ante una obra inconclusa no podrá nunca tirar su vida por la borda. Conoce el porqué de su existencia y podrá soportar casi cualquier cómo.

La libertad no es la última palabra. La libertad es una parte de la historia y la mitad de la verdad. La libertad es la cara negativa de cualquier fenómeno humano, cuya cara positiva es la responsabilidad. De hecho, la libertad se encuentra en peligro de degenerar en mera arbitrariedad salvo si se ejerce en términos de responsabilidad.

La libertad se encuentra en peligro de degenerar en mera arbitrariedad salvo si se ejerce en términos de responsabilidad.

Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.

En otras palabras, la vida pregunta por el hombre, cuestiona al hombre, y este contesta de una única manera: respondiendo de su propia vida y con su propia vida. Solo con la responsabilidad personal se puede contestar a la vida. De modo que la logoterapia considera que la esencia de la existencia consiste en la capacidad del ser humano para responder responsablemente a las demandas que la vida le plantea en cada situación particular.

Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

1) turning suffering into a human achievement and accomplishment; (2) deriving from guilt the opportunity to change oneself for the better; and (3) deriving from life's transitoriness an incentive to take responsible action.