Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It is infinitely safer to know that the man at the top has his doubts, as you and I have ours, yet… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and… — 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
The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men.… — 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
Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The daimonic refers to the power of nature rather than the superego, and is beyond good and evil. Nor is it man's… — 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
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The authentic rebel knows that the silencing of all his adversaries is the last thing on earth he wishes: their extermination would… — 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
