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

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Rollo May
Age: 85 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 21
Died: 1994
Died: October 22
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Writer
Dangerous

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All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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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.
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Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.
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It is infinitely safer to know that the man at the top has his doubts, as you and I have ours, yet has the courage to move ahead in spite of these doubts.
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Care is a state in which something does matter care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness.
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Now, I believe in life, and I believe in the joy of human existence, but these things cannot be experienced except as we also face the despair, also face the anxiety that every human being has to face if he lives with any creativity at all.
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Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.
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The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that they will not matter.
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The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are examples. The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.
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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
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The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning heart. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.
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By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.
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Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.
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Love is generally confused with dependence but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.
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