Rollo May Quotes on Philosophy
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The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through 'reminiscence,' that is by 'remembering,' by intuitively searching into our own experience.
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: 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.
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You can live without a father who accepts you, but you cannot live without a world that makes some sense to you.
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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.
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Existence (1956)
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Existential Psychoanalysis (1962)
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Existential Psychology (1969)
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Paulus: Tillich As Spiritual Teacher (1973)
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Freedom and Destiny (1981)
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My Quest for Beauty (1985)
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The Psychology of Existence (1994)