Rollo May Quotes About Existentialism

Quotes about: Existentialism

• Depression is the inability to construct a future.

  Rollo May

  Sad, Depression, Depressing

  "Love and Will". Book by Rollo May, ch. 9, 1969.

• Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.

  Rollo May

  Art, Healing, Games

  Rollo May (1985). “My Quest for Beauty”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

• A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

  Rollo May

  Giving, World, Patterns

  Rollo May (1991). “The Cry for Myth”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

• 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

  Stronger, Culture, Definitions

  Rollo May (1991). “The Cry for Myth”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Rollo May

  Discovery, Interesting, Existentialism

  Rollo May (1991). “The Cry for Myth”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

• One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.

  Rollo May

  Able, Existentialism, Readiness

  Rollo May (1994). “Existence”, p.38, Jason Aronson

• Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

  Rollo May

  Powerful, Speaks Out, Order

• 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

  Reality, Existentialism, Humans

  Rollo May (1994). “Existence”, p.27, Jason Aronson

• Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own

  Rollo May

  Choices, Fundamentals, Existentialism

  Rollo May (1994). “Existence”, p.45, Jason Aronson

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