My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth,… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I may say that B-love, in a profound but testable sense, creates the partner. It gives him a self-image, it gives him… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word,… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by,… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors,… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Plateau experiencing can be achieved, learned, earned by long hard work.... A transient glimpse is certainly possible in the peak experiences which may, after… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image