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title: "3 Destructive Quotes By Rollo May"
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> [The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/the-daimonic-is-any-natural-function-which-has-the-power-to-take-over/)

[Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/)

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> [Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/everyone-has-a-need-for-significance-and-if-we-can-t-make-that/)

[Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f70/rollo-may-1295_destructive_everyone-has-a-need-for-significance-and_1050562.jpg)

> [Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/our-age-is-one-of-transition-in-which-the-normal-channels-for/)

[Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/)

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## Other authors on Destructive

## More by Rollo May

> [Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/human-freedom-involves-our-capacity-to-pause-between-the-stimulus-and/)

[Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/)

> [Political freedom is to be cherished indeed. But there is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound to the inner personal freedom of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/political-freedom-is-to-be-cherished-indeed-but-there-is-no-political/)

[Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/)

> [Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/joy-is-the-effect-which-comes-when-we-use-our-powers/)

[Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/)

> [In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/in-religion-it-is-not-the-sycophants-or-those-who-cling-most/)

[Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/)

> [One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/one-of-the-few-blessings-of-living-in-an-age-of-anxiety-is-that-we/)

[Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/)

> [Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/intimacy-requires-courage-because-risk-is-inescapable/)

[Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/)

> [Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/artists-do-not-run-away-from-non-being-but-by-encountering-and/)

[Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/)

> [“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/technology-is-the-knack-of-so-arranging-the-world-that-we-do-not/)

[Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/)

> [By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/by-the-creative-act-we-are-able-to-reach-beyond-our-own-death/)

[Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/joy-is-the-zest-that-you-get-out-of-using-your-talents-your/)

[Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/)

> [One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/one-must-have-at-least-a-readiness-to-love-the-other-person-broadly/)

[Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/)

> [Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/man-is-the-ethical-animal-ethical-in-potentiality-even-if/)

[Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/)

> [Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/evil-in-this-system-of-ethics-is-that-which-tears-apart-shuts-out-the/)

[Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/)

> [We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/we-receive-love-from-our-children-as-well-as-others-not-in-proportion/)

[Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/)

> [The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/the-opposite-of-courage-in-our-society-is-not-cowardice-it-is/)

[Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/)

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