The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage,… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
In the utopian aim of removing all power and aggression from human behavior, we run the risk of removing self-assertion, self-affirmation, and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The cooperative, loving side of existence goes hand in hand with coping and power, but neither the one nor the other can… — 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
