Rollo May
Rollo May
Rollo Reece Maywas an American existential psychologist and author of the influential book Love and Will. He is often associated with humanistic psychology, existentialist philosophy and, alongside Viktor Frankl, was a major proponent of existential psychotherapy. The philosopher and theologian Paul Tillich was a close friend who had a significant influence on his work...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 April 1909
CountryUnited States of America
parent hard
This is hard for parents to say genuinely.
meaningful individual said
There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.
forgiveness protest remains
If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.
plato greek remember
The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our own experience.
phrases movement starting
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!
flare-up mad feelings
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.
nihilism becoming ethical
Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
courage creativity simple
Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
unique men self
Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his life in terms of 'the possible,' and that this capacity is one aspect of his experiencing himself as a being having a world.
dangerous knows
It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
commitment creativity dedication
We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment.
courage creative patterns
Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.
drug vivid matter
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.
lines may poet
Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.