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Humans Quotes by Abraham Maslow
- Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
- Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.
- There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators,…
- Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
- As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person…
- Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people…
- We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that…
- When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of…
- I may say that (Being) love, in a profound but testable sense, creates the partner. it gives him a self-image, it gives him self-acceptance, a…
- The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he…
- My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and…
- The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
- The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.
- Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just,…
- We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.
- Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
- We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often…
- Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not…
- But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding…
- The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
- Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs,…
- All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby,…
- It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by…
- 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 was it crippled?…
- Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone or humiliate or unnecessarily hurt or dominate or reject another human being, they become forces…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong