black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

Rollo May

The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.
ROLLO MAY

Certain Come Evil Good One Ourselves Relationship Thing Unaffected
Humor is the healthy way of feeling “distance” between one’s self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one’s problem with perspective.
ROLLO MAY

Distance Feel Healthy Humor Look Perspective Problem Self Stand Way
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.
ROLLO MAY

Become Differentiate Experience Feeling Many Mature Nuance Passionate Person Strong
There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
ROLLO MAY

Affect Authentic Change Freedom History Human Inner Later Sooner
Religion is whatever the individual takes to be his ultimate concern. One’s religious attitude is to be found at that point where he has a conviction that there are values in human existence worth living and dying for.
ROLLO MAY

Attitude Concern Condition Die Individual Life Point Religion Ultimate
Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
ROLLO MAY

Capacity Development Freedom Man Old Ourselves Own Takem Hand
Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
ROLLO MAY

Arise Out Power Powerlessness Superfully Violence
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
ROLLO MAY

Among Courage Fidelity Love Personal Value Virtue
Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
ROLLO MAY

Being Conscious Creativity Encounter Human Intensively World
The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.
ROLLO MAY

Constructive Deal First Learn Live Moment Necesaaty Present Reality Thing Time
People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
ROLLO MAY

Day Decision Dignity Make Multitude People Worth
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.
ROLLO MAY

Absorb Around Become Caught Completely Obvious Something Thing You
One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.
ROLLO MAY

Age Anxiety Aware Become Blessing Few Fierce Living One Ourselbeevs
What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
ROLLO MAY

Art Experience Fountainhead Frost Human Imagination
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.
ROLLO MAY

Answer Between Change Energy Field Human Met Passion Reach Relationship
Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.
ROLLO MAY

Add Apathy Cowardice Long Run

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Rollo May Quotes