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
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.
perspective historical culture
A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory or method which is actually relative to the fact that we live at a given moment in time in the development of our particular culture.
nihilism becoming ethical
Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
way planning forget-you
One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
courage creativity simple
Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
becoming
Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.
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.
running men long
Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man
dangerous knows
It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
motivation long anxiety
It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
heart people shows
I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts.
creativity encounters understood
Creativity occurs as an act of encounter, and is to be understood with this encounter at the center.
creativity definitions born
Something is born, comes into being, something which did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.