Abraham Maslow Quotes
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It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
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The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
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You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
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I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
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Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.
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Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
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Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
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What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
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Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.
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The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.
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What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.
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If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
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If swindling pays, then it will not stop. The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays. I can now add a slight variation on this; you cannot have a good society unless virtue pays. But here we get very close to the whole subject of metaneeds, and also of the ideal conditions where dichotomies are resolved and transcended.
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I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
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Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy. The study of self-actualizing people must be the basis for a more universal science of psychology
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.
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Concerning the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church.
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It is too often not realized that culture itself is an adaptive tool, one of whose main functions is to make the physiological emergencies come less and less often.