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Existentialism Quotes by Rollo May
- A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
- There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as…
- Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory…
- One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.
- When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
- Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways…
- Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips…
- It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.
More Existentialism Quotes
- It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to… — Albert Camus
- What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer.… — Samuel Beckett
- Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in… — Stanley Elkin
- Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. — Jean-Paul Sartre
- I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I… — Jean-Paul Sartre
- Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. — Jean-Paul Sartre
- One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all… — Jean-Paul Sartre
- We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning;… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery