Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
ROLLO MAYA myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
More Rollo May Quotes
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Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.
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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.
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Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.
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People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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So courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
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The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.
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One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
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There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular – though profoundly mistaken – definition of myth as falsehood.
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