351 Quotes by Rollo May

That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man.

There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.

One does not become fully human painlessly.

... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities.

Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.

The daimonic refers to the power of nature rather than the superego, and is beyond good and evil. Nor is it man's 'recall to himself' as Heidegger and later Fromm have argued, for its source lies in those realms where the self is rooted in natural forces which go beyond the self and are felt as the grasp of fate upon us. The daimonic arises from the ground of being rather than the self as such.

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.

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