Sign in with Facebook
“How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.”
―
―
“If we present a man with a concept of man which is not true, we may well corrupt him. When we present man as an automaton of reflexes, as a mind-machine, as a bundle of instincts, as a pawn of drives and reactions, as a mere product of instinct, heredity and environment, we feed the nihilism to which modern man is, in any case, prone.
I became acquainted with the last stage of that corruption in my second concentration camp, Auschwitz. The gas chambers of Auschwitz were the ultimate consequence of the theory that man is nothing but the product of heredity and environment; or as the Nazi liked to say, ‘of Blood and Soil.’ 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 lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.”
― The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy, Revised and Expanded
I became acquainted with the last stage of that corruption in my second concentration camp, Auschwitz. The gas chambers of Auschwitz were the ultimate consequence of the theory that man is nothing but the product of heredity and environment; or as the Nazi liked to say, ‘of Blood and Soil.’ 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 lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.”
― The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy, Revised and Expanded
Zac’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Zac’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Biography, Christian, Classics, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, and Science
Polls voted on by Zac
Lists liked by Zac
