--- title: "3 Nietzsche Quotes By Rollo May" description: "3 Nietzsche quotes by Rollo May. Plus more from Rollo May and more Nietzsche sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ee/rollo-may-1295_bits-and-pieces_we-in-our-age-are-faced-with-a-strange-p_422703.jpg" --- > [“We in our age are faced with a strange paradox. Never before have we had so much information in bits and pieces…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/we-in-our-age-are-faced-with-a-strange-paradox-never-before-have-we/) [Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ee/rollo-may-1295_bits-and-pieces_we-in-our-age-are-faced-with-a-strange-p_422703.jpg) > [Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/science-nietzsche-had-warned-is-becoming-a-factory-and-the-result/) [Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac7/rollo-may-1295_becoming_science-nietzsche-had-warned-is-becoming_2355026.jpg) > [Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/neither-kierkegaard-nor-nietzsche-had-the-slightest-interest-in/) [Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cac/rollo-may-1295_interest_neither-kierkegaard-nor-nietzsche-had-th_2526784.jpg) ## Other authors on Nietzsche - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 25 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/friedrich-nietzsche/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-peter-sloterdijk-75062.jpg) Peter Sloterdijk 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/peter-sloterdijk/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-viktor-e-frankl-93688.jpg) Viktor E. Frankl 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/viktor-e-frankl/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barbara-amiel-16284.jpg) John Carroll 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/john-carroll/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-walter-kaufmann-94392.jpg) Walter Kaufmann 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/walter-kaufmann/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-hermann-hesse-41906.jpg) Hermann Hesse 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/hermann-hesse/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-georg-brandes-37439.jpg) Georg Brandes 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/georg-brandes/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jean-nidetch-48053.jpg) David Maze 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/david-maze/) - [David E. Cooper 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/david-e-cooper/) ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/rollo-may/#itemlist", "name": "3 Nietzsche Quotes By Rollo May", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“We in our age are faced with a strange paradox. 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