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Rollo May

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It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.


— Rollo May


#myth #science #science

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love o fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)


— Rollo May


#values #virtue #courage

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)


— Rollo May


#courage #moral-courage #courage

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.


— Rollo May


#meaning #relationship #existentialism

There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.


— Rollo May


#myth #contemporary

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.


— Rollo May


#creativity #poets #courage

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?


— Rollo May


#art

Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man


— Rollo May


#inspirational

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.


— Rollo May


#love

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.


— Rollo May


#self-awareness #age






About Rollo May






Did you know about Rollo May?

An innocent is only doing what he or Rollo May must do. He claims that by shifting anxiety to a fear one can therefore discover incentives to either avoid the feared object or find the means to remove this fear of it. May wrote this book with the intentions of it being easily read yet still providing all the information that came from the research in studying the cause and effects of anxiety.

May was a close friend of the philosopher and theologian Paul Tillich who also had a significant influence on his work. He is often associated with both humanistic psychology and existentialist philosophy. He was the author of the influential book Love and Will which was publiRollo Mayd in 1969.

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