Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the… — 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
A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Unconscious insights or answers to problems that come in reverie do not come hit or miss... they pertain to those areas in… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative… — 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
