Quotes About Introspection

And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.

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

focuses on the meaning of human existence as well as on man's search for such a meaning.

logoterapia es un método menos introspectivo y menos retrospectivo.

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

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 seems to me

It is one of the basic tenets of logotherapy that man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

the logotherapeutic "notion that experiencing can be as valuable as achieving is therapeutic because it compensates for our one-sided emphasis on the external world of achievement at the expense of the internal world of experience.

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same. Long

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.

What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

we are challenged to change ourselves.

As the inner life of the prisoner tended to become more intense, he also experienced the beauty of art and nature as never before.

One may demand heroism only of a single person and that is oneself.

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

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.

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 ever ready to suffer, on the condition, to be sure, that his suffering has a meaning.

rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest. Not a few

A man who let himself decline because he could not see any future goal found himself occupied with retrospective thoughts. In a different connection, we have already spoken of the tendency there was to look into the past, to help make the present, with all its horrors, less real. But in robbing the present of its reality there lay a certain danger. It became easy to overlook the opportunities to make something positive of camp life, opportunities which really did exist.

to live my thoughts instead of merely putting them on paper?

will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

A man who let himself decline because he could not see any future goal found himself occupied with retrospective thoughts.

namely, the feeling of the total and ultimate meaninglessness of their lives. They lack the awareness of a meaning worth living for. They are haunted by the experience of their inner emptiness, a void within themselves; they are caught in that situation which I have called the "existential vacuum.