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Top 200 Rollo May Quotes (2024 Update)
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Rollo May Quote: “The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through “reminiscence,” that is by “remembering,” by intuitively searching into our own experience.”
Rollo May Quote: “The fascist authoritarianism, characterized by sado-masochism and destructiveness, had a function which is comparable psychologically to a neurotic symptom – namely, fascism compensated for powerlessness and individual isolation and protected the individual from anxiety-creating situations. If one compare fascism to a neurotic symptom, it can be said that fascism is a neurotic form of community.”
Rollo May Quote: “When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.”
Rollo May Quote: “The threat, thus, in anxiety is not necessarily more intense than fear. Rather, it attacks us on a deeper level. The threat must be to something in the ‘core’ or ‘essence’ of the personality. My self-esteem, my experience of myself as a person, my feeling of being of worth – all of these are imperfect descriptions of what is threatened.”
Rollo May Quote: “Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.”
Rollo May Quote: “Much self-condemnation, thus, is a cloak for arrogance. Those who think they overcome pride by condemning themselves could well ponder Spinoza’s remark, ‘One who despises himself is the nearest to a proud man’. In ancient Athens, when a politician was trying to get the votes of the working class by appearing very humble in a tattered coat with big holes in it, Socrates unmasked his hypocrisy by exclaiming, ‘Your vanity shows forth from every whole in your coat’.”
Rollo May Quote: “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 a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible.”
Rollo May Quote: “Much self-condemnation is a cloak for arrogance. Those who think they overcome pride by condemning themselves could well ponder Spinoza’s remark “One who despises himself is the nearest to a proud man.”
Rollo May Quote: “Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the depths which push the self to a new plane.”
Rollo May Quote: “Another root of our malady is our loss of the sense of the worth and dignity of the human being. Nietzsche predicted this when he pointed out that the individual was being swallowed up in the herd, and that we were living by a “slave-morality.” Marx also predicted it when he proclaimed that modern man was being “de-humanized,” and Kafka showed in his amazing stories how people literally can lose their identity as persons.”
Rollo May Quote: “In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person’s development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.”
Rollo May Quote: “One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.”
Rollo May Quote: “Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.”
Rollo May Quote: “Self-inflation and conceit are generally the external signs of inner emptiness and self-doubt; a show of pride is one of the most common covers for anxiety.”
Rollo May Quote: “Creativity is a yearning for immortality.”
Rollo May Quote: “Tremendous pride was exhibited in fascism, as everyone knows who has seen the pictures of the strutting Mussolini and psychopathic Hitler; but fascism is a development in people who are empty, anxious and despairing, and therefore seize on megalomaniac promises.”
Rollo May Quote: “Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all.”
Rollo May Quote: “Life is not a matter for simple optimism – for there is evil; nor for mere pessimism – for there is good. The possibility for good in the face of evil is what gives life tragic meaning.”
Rollo May Quote: “Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.”
Rollo May Quote: “Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.”
Rollo May Quote: “A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.”
Rollo May Quote: “Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.”
Rollo May Quote: “Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.”
Rollo May Quote: “Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.”
Rollo May Quote: “What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.”
Rollo May Quote: “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 of bringing order and form into this chaos.”
Rollo May Quote: “When people feel threatened and anxious they become more rigid, and when in doubt they tend to become dogmatic; and then they lose their own vitality. They use the remnants of traditional values to build a protective encasement and then shrink behind it; or they make an outright panicky retreat into the past. But.”
Rollo May Quote: “Creativity occurs as an act of encounter, and is to be understood with this encounter at the center.”
Rollo May Quote: “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 proclaimed, in Nietzsche’s phrase, Follow not me, but you!”
Rollo May Quote: “Receptivity requires a nimbleness, a fine-honed sensitivity in order to let one’s self be the vehicle of whatever vision may emerge.”
Rollo May Quote: “When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.”
Rollo May Quote: “Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.”
Rollo May Quote: “The rebel is committed to giving a form and pattern to the world. It is a pattern born of the indomitable thrust of the human mind, the mind which makes out of the mass of meaningless data in the world an order and a form.”
Rollo May Quote: “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, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.”
Rollo May Quote: “Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that they will not matter.”
Rollo May Quote: “All our feelings, like the artist’s paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.”
Rollo May Quote: “By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.”
Rollo May Quote: “The “stuffed men” are bound to become more lonely no matter how much they “lean together”; for hollow people do not have a base from which to learn to love.”
Rollo May Quote: “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 is saying.”
Rollo May Quote: “Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.”
Rollo May Quote: “It is easier in our society to be naked physically than to be naked psychologically or spiritually – easier to share our body than to share our fantasies, hopes, fears, and aspirations, which are felt to be more personal and the sharing of which is experienced as making us more vulnerable.”
Rollo May Quote: “Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.”
Rollo May Quote: “If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.”
Rollo May Quote: “To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.”
Rollo May Quote: “Opposites though they are, both solitude and solidarity are essential if the artist is to produce works that are not only significant to his or her age, but that will also speak to future generations.”
Rollo May Quote: “Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.”
Rollo May Quote: “The line between ‘normal’ and ‘neurotic’ begins to appear when any activity becomes compulsive – that is, when the person feels pushed to perform the act because it habitually allays his anxiety rather than because of any intrinsic wish to perform the act.”
Rollo May Quote: “Norman Cousins, endeavoring in his essay Modern Man Is Obsolete to express the deepest feelings of intelligent people at that staggering historical moment, wrote not about how to protect one’s self from atomic radiation, or how to meet political problems, or the tragedy of man’s self-destruction. Instead his editorial was a meditation on loneliness. “All man’s history,” he proclaimed, “is an endeavor to shatter his loneliness.”
Rollo May Quote: “However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.”
Rollo May Quote: “Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?”
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