It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The problems of a period are the existential crises of what can be but hasn't yet been resolved; and regardless of how… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we… — Rollo May Copy Share
Political freedom is to be cherished indeed. But there is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound to the inner personal freedom of… — Rollo May Copy Share
In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the… — Rollo May Copy Share
One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves. — Rollo May Copy Share
Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. — Rollo May Copy Share
“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.” — Rollo May Copy Share
Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind… — Rollo May Copy Share
One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him. — Rollo May Copy Share
Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason and the… — Rollo May Copy Share
Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other. — Rollo May Copy Share
We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly… — Rollo May Copy Share
