Eric Eng’s Reviews > Man's Search for Meaning > Status Update

For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
So let us be alert in a twofold sense:
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of.
And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

In the past, nothing is irretrievably lost, but rather, on the contrary, everything is irrevocably stored and treasured.

Happiness cannot be perused; it must ensue.

Pleasure is, and must remain, a side effect of by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!

…no one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them.

Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.