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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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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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They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.
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Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it.
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Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become defence mechanisms... against the unconscious.
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Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
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Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact.
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Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
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A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.
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Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.
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One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.
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Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new world. This is creative courage, however minor or fortuitous our creations may be.
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Reason works better when emotions are present the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.
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If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.
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We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.
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Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.
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There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.
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Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.
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Life comes from physical survival but the good life comes from what we care about.
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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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Humor is the healthy way of feeling distance between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem with perspective.
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