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 function of the rebel is to shake the fixated mores of the rigid order of civilization; and this shaking, though painful,… — 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
Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.” — Rollo May Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
