118 quotes
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Man’s Search for Himself (1953)
The daimonic needs to be directed and channeled. Here is where human consciousness becomes so important.
Love and Will (1969)
A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
Psychology and the Human Dilemma (1967)
Now it is no longer a matter of deciding what to do, but of deciding how to decide.
Love and Will (1969)
Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
Love and Will (1969)
Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, "This is me and the world be damned!"
Artists are generally soft-spoken persons who are concerned with their inner visions and images. But that is precisely what makes them feared by any coercive society.
The Courage to Create (1975)
However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.
Power and Innocence (1972)
Dogmatists of all kinds — scientific, economic, moral, as well as political — are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so.
The Courage to Create (1975)
Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every side to make himself over into its image.
Psychology and the Human Dilemma (1967)
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.
The Courage to Create (1975)
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.
The Courage to Create (1975)
The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.
Man’s Search for Himself (1953)
I have described the human dilemma as the capacity of man to view himself as object and as subject.
Psychology and the Human Dilemma (1967)
The human imagination leaps to form the whole, to complete the scene in order to make sense of it.
The Courage to Create (1975)
Aeschylus is not impersonal but transpersonal, a believer in fate and moral responsibility at the same time.
Love and Will (1969)
What occurs is always a process, a doing — specifically a process interrelating the person and his or her world.
The Courage to Create (1975)
Community can be defined simply as a group in which free conversation can take place.
Power and Innocence (1972)
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings.
Man’s Search for Himself (1953)
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom.
Man’s Search for Himself (1953)