Wisdom Quote by Rollo May — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“We can no longer postpone the challenging question, How does one know that among the bedlam of voices which beset us all, one is really hearing his daimon? Inner 'voices'—experienced as actual or metaphorical ones—are notoriously untrustworthy; they can tell one anything. Many people hear voices, but there are few Joans of Arc. How about our schizophrenic patients who are instructed by their voices to bomb New York?”

“We in our age are faced with a strange paradox. Never before have we had so much information in bits and pieces flooded upon us by radio and television and satellite, yet never before have we had so little inner certainty about our own being. The more objective truth increases, the more our inner certitude decreases. Our fantastically increased technical power, and each forward step in technology is experienced by many as a new push toward our possible annihilation. Nietzsche was strangely prophetic when he said,”

“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.”

“Man, this creature so 'noble in faculty,' moves step by step in a pilgrimage that is destined to bring him only back again to the inanimate state of the stone. From dust we are, and to dust we ultimately return.”

“Eros is the drive for union and reproduction in the biological realm. Even in the birds and animals, we see the "desire of procreation," and they are "in agony when they take the infection of love, which begins with the desire of union.”

“The price of truth is solitude.”

“to be a symbol of ‘grown-upedness’ is by no means synonymous of being wise. Usually the contrary. The wise never really grow up.”

“In my experience, it is always worth it to find the love that lives inside you. No matter how deep you have to dig sometimes.”

“Good morning," said the little prince.”

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”

“Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although”