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Human Quotes by Rollo May
- What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you…
- The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry…
- Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
- The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct.…
- One does not become fully human painlessly.
- 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…
- The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
- That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of…
- The personal freedom to think & feel & speak authentically & to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
- Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
- We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but…
- The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things,…
- Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension…
- Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.
- It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
- Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being,…
- Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is…
- Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
- When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
- It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of…
More Human Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle