Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.
Rollo MayNeither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them. Both proclaimed, in Nietzsche's phrase, Follow not me, but you!
Rollo MayFortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.
Rollo May