" In the concentration camp every circumstance conspires to make the prisoner lose his hold. All the familiar goals in life are snatched away. What alone remains is ' the last of human freedoms '- the ability to ' choose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.' This ultimate freedom, recognized by the ancient Stoics as well as by modern existentialists, takes on vivid significance in Frankl's story. The prisoners were only average men, but some, at least, by choosing to be ' worthy of their suffering ' proved man's capacity to rise above his outward fate."
Gordon W. Allport