All Rollo May Quotes
- Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are… Arise
- What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning. Beginning
- One does not become fully human painlessly. Become Fully
- It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body… Amazing
- It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible. Anxiety
- Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can… Culture
- Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather… Admired
- Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them.… Both
- Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and… Deepest
- When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as… Affect
- A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Whether the meaning… Discover
- Our age is one of transition, in which the normal channels for utilizing the daimonic are denied; and such ages tend to be times when… Age
- A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory… Culture
- Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism. Becoming
- One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it. Easiest
- We receive love roughly in proportion to our capacity to love. Capacity
- Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods. Courage
- Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware,… Add
- Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible. Becoming
- The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them. Act