Quotes About Introspection

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

It is we ourselves who must answer the questions that life asks of us, and to those questions we can respond only by being responsible for our existence.

Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.

Life in a concentration camp tore open the human soul and exposed its depths.

Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The great task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life.

Dostoevski said once, There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

When man can't find meaning in his life, he distracts himself with pleasure.

Life in a concentration camp tore open the human soul and exposed its depths. Is it surprising that in those depths we again found only human qualities which in their very nature were a mixture of good and evil? The rift dividing good from evil, which goes through all human beings, reaches into the lowest depths and becomes apparent even on the bottom of the abyss which is laid open by the concentration camp.

La historia nos brindó la oportunidad de conocer la naturaleza humana quizá como ninguna otra generación. ¿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

being human is nothing other than being conscious and being responsible!

Sin embargo, yo afirmo que nosotros no inventamos el propósito de nuestra vida, nosotros lo descubrimos.

Man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life. That is why man is even ready to suffer, on the condition, to be sure, that his suffering has a meaning.

A man's character became involved to the point that he was caught in a mental turmoil which threatened all the values he held and threw them into doubt.

It is we ourselves who must answer the questions that life asks of us, and to these questions we can respond only by being responsible for our existence.

God is the partner of our most intimate soliloquies. That is to say, whenever you are talking to yourself in utmost sincerity and ultimate solitude--he to whom you are addressing yourself may justifiably be called God.

The neurotic who learns to laugh at himself may be on the way to self-management, perhaps to cure.

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!

The rift dividing good from evil, which goes through all human beings, reaches into the lowest depths and becomes apparent even on the bottom of the abyss which is laid open by the concentration camp.

Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life.

Quién es, en realidad, el hombre? Es el ser que siempre decide lo que es. Es el ser que inventó las cámaras de gas, pero también es el ser que entró en ellas con paso firme y musitando una oración.

greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life.

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly

the typical self-centeredness of the neurotic is broken up instead of being continually fostered and reinforced

When, on his return, a man found that in many places he was met only with a shrug of the shoulders and with hackneyed phrases, he tended to become bitter and to ask himself why he had gone through all that he had.