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.

When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.

Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in the mere gratification and satisfaction of drives and instincts.

There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.

The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear anymore—except his God.

Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning.

Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation

It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.

Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.