Here Lies The Chance For A Man

As For The Concept Of Collective Guilt, I Personally Think That It Is Totally Unjustified To Hold One Person Responsible For The Behavior Of Another Person Or A Collective Of Persons.

[speaking Of His Experience In A Concentration Camp:] As We Said Before, Any Attempt To Restore A Man's Inner Strength In The Camp Had First To Succeed In Showing Him Some Future Goal...woe To Him Who Saw No More Sense In His Life, No Aim, No Purpose, And Therefore No Point In Carrying On. He Was Soon Lost.

In A Last Violent Protest Against The Hopelessness Of Imminent Death, I Sensed My Spirit Piercing Through The Enveloping Gloom. I Felt It Transcend That Hopeless, Meaningless World, And From Somewhere I Heard A Victorious "yes" In Answer To My Question Of The Existence Of An Ultimate Purpose. At That Moment A Light Was Lit In A Distant Farmhouse, Which Stood On The Horizon As If Painted There, In The Midst Of The Miserable Gray Of A Dawning Morning In Bavaria. "et Lux In Tenebris Lucet"-and The Light Shineth In The Darkness.

These Tasks, And Therefore The Meaning Of Life, Differ From Man To Man, And From Moment To Moment. Thus It Is Impossible To Define The Meaning In Life In A General Way.

Everywhere Man Is Confronted With Fate , With A Chance Of Achieving Something Through His Own Suffering.