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
courage moving long
Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.
artist race creating
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.
sycophants status-quo dissent
In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents.
essence spinning facts
The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.
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.
maturity understanding age
Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.
divinity saint form
Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity.
attitude character opportunity
Suffering is nature's way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity for growth. People should rejoice in suffering, strange as it sounds, for this is a sign of the availability of energy to transform their characters.
block technology dimensions
The danger always exists that our technology will serve as a buffer between us and nature, a block between us and the deeper dimensions of our own experience.
truth believe doubt
To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment.
moving men doubt
It is infinitely safer to know that the man at the top has his doubts, as you and I have ours, yet has the courage to move ahead in spite of these doubts.
consciousness awareness possibility
Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.
strong symphony mature-person
The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.
fighting scene individual
Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself.