Becoming a better person Quotes by Abraham H. Maslow

“Every age but ours has had its model, its ideal. All of these have been given up by our culture; the saint, the hero,…

— Abraham H. Maslow

“Orthodox science today attempts to be free not only of values but also of emotions. As youngsters would say, it tries to be "cool".”

— Abraham H. Maslow

“To sum it up, from this point of view, the two religions of mankind tend to be the peakers and the non-peakers, that is…

— Abraham H. Maslow

“The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e., only from outside the person. This…

— Abraham H. Maslow

“The empirical fact is that self-actualizing people, our best experiencers, are also our most compassionate, our great improvers and reformers of society, our most…

— Abraham H. Maslow

“Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.”

— Abraham H. Maslow

“Descriptively, we can see in each person his own (weak) tendencies to grow toward self-actualization; and also descriptively, we can see his various (weak)…

— Abraham H. Maslow

“The question of desirable grief and pain or the necessity for it must also be faced. [Are] growth and self-fulfillment possible at all without…

— Abraham H. Maslow

“The search for the exotic, the strange, the unusual, the uncommon has often taken the form of pilgrimages, of turning away from the world,…

— Abraham H. Maslow

“Shortsighted people make [experientialism and social reform] opposites, mutually exclusive. [...] The empirical fact is that self-actualizing people, our best experiencers, are also our…

— Abraham H. Maslow

“Neither are the humanistic scholars and artists of any great help these days. They used to be, and were supposed to be, as a…

— Abraham H. Maslow