11 Rollo May Quotes on Philosophy

Rollo May quotes on philosophy

11. The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through 'reminiscence,' that is by 'remembering,' by intuitively searching into our own experience.

52. : bring out new meaning, new forms, and disclose a reality that was literally not present before, a reality that is not merely subjective but has a second pole which is outside ourselves. This is the progressive side of symbol and myth. This aspect points ahead. It is integrative. It is a progressive revealing of structure in our relation to nature and our own existence, as the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur so well states. It is a road to universals beyond discrete personal experience.

60. You can live without a father who accepts you, but you cannot live without a world that makes some sense to you.

62. This passion for form is a way of trying to find and constitute meaning in life. And this is what genuine creativity is. Imagination, broadly defined, seems to me to be a principle in human life underlying even reason, for the rational functions, according to our definitions, can lead to understanding - can participate in the constituting of reality - only as they are creative. Creativity is thus involved in our every experience as we try to make meaning in our self-world relationship.

90. Existence (1956)

91. Existential Psychoanalysis (1962)

96. Existential Psychology (1969)

98. Paulus: Tillich As Spiritual Teacher (1973)

102. Freedom and Destiny (1981)

104. My Quest for Beauty (1985)

112. The Psychology of Existence (1994)