“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.”
Frankl uses this observation to prove that something in the human being is capable of self-transcendence even at the limits of survival. The men giving away their last bread had chosen compassion over instinct.
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