Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Receptivity requires a nimbleness, a fine-honed sensitivity in order to let one's self be the vehicle of whatever vision may emerge. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various… — 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
Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure… — 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
