Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion. — 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
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will emerge love and affection and belongingness needs,… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their… — 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
People with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the… — 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 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
Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of… — 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