In His Creative Work The Artist Is

It Is Here That We Encounter The Central Theme Of Existentialism: To Live Is To Suffer, To Survive Is To Find Meaning In The Suffering.

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.

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.

A Human Being Is Not One Thing Among Others; Things Determine Each Other, But Man Is Ultimately Self-determining. What He Becomes - Within The Limits Of Endowment And Environment- He Has Made Out Of Himself. In The Concentration Camps, For Example, In This Living Laboratory And On This Testing Ground, We Watched And Witnessed Some Of Our Comrades Behave Like Swine While Others Behaved Like Saints. Man Has Both Potentialities Within Himself; Which One Is Actualized Depends On Decisions But Not On Conditions.

The Meaning Of My Life Is To Help Others Find Meaning In Theirs.