Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do it?
ROLLO MAYScience, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
More Rollo May Quotes
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There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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This is what our society needs – not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.
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Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.
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The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one’s own convictions – not obstinately or defiantly
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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
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Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.
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Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
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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.
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Therapy isn’t curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human.
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Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, “This is me and the world be damned!” Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society – Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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Forge in the smithy of your soul.
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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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