We have come to know Man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invested the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
Connections
The Glory of The Tsars Become Human
Link Explanation: The linked note describes Camus’ perspective that our embrace of the absurd allows us to choose how we live and thus it give us power over our own destiny. This quote from Frankl is similar. It is ultimately about how, despite the horrors life throws at us, we are free to choose how we react and act in spite of it. That is perhaps the most beautiful thing in the world and it is solely human.
Reference
Man’s Search for Meaning