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Quotes from Psychology and the Human Dilemma — Rollo May

d. 1994 United States

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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.

Psychology and the Human Dilemma (1967)

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)

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)

When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.

Psychology and the Human Dilemma (1967)

Increasingly in our time — this is an inevitable result of collectivization — it is the organization man who succeeds. And he is characterized by the fact that he has significance only if he gives up his significance.

Psychology and the Human Dilemma (1967)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rollo May (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.