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May Quotes by Rollo May
- Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new…
- 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,…
- Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact.
- Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity,…
- The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open to hear what…
- Receptivity requires a nimbleness, a fine-honed sensitivity in order to let one's self be the vehicle of whatever vision may emerge.
- Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to…
- Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle