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Rollo May quotes

American Psychologist April 21, 1909 – October 22, 1994

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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
Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76) Rollo May
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt. Rollo May
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 the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73) Rollo May
In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone. Rollo May
Rollo May quote: "Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and..."
Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all. Rollo May
Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of one's community is to share in its myths... Rollo May
Rollo May quote: "Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the..."
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. Rollo May
Rollo May quote: "What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the..."
What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience? Rollo May
Rollo May quote: "Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the..."
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. Rollo May
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100) Rollo May
We in our age are faced with a strange paradox. Never before have we had so much information in bits and pieces flooded upon us by radio and television and satellite, yet never before have we had so little inner certainty about our own being. The more objective truth increases, the more our inner certitude decreases. Our fantastically increased technical power, and each forward step in technology is experienced by many as a new push toward our possible annihilation. Nietzsche was strangely... Rollo May
Rollo May quote: "Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have..."
Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35) Rollo May
Rollo May quote: "It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they..."
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way. Rollo May
Rollo May quote: "It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we..."
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. Rollo May

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