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Abraham Maslow

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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.”
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Theory of Human Motivation", in Psychological Review, vol. 50, no. 4 (1943), p. 374
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.”
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Theory of Human Motivation", in Psychological Review, vol. 50, no. 4 (1943), p. 382
“I am deliberately rejecting our present easy distinction between sickness and health, at least as far as surface symptoms are concerned. Does sickness mean having symptoms? I maintain now that sickness might consist of not having symptoms when you should. Does health mean being symptom-free? I deny it. Which of the Nazis at Auschwitz or Dachau were healthy? Those with a stricken conscience or those with a nice, clear, happy conscience? Was it possible for a profoundly human person not to feel conflict, suffering, depression, rage, etc.?”
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Personality Problems and Personality Growth", in Clark E. Moustakas (ed.) The Self: Explorations in Personal Growth (1956), pp. 236–37; republished in Notes Toward a Psychology of Being (1962)
“It seems quite clear that personality problems may sometimes be loud protests against the crushing of one's psychological bones, of one's true inner nature. What is sick then is not to protest...Most people do not protest...They...pay years later, in neurotic and psychosomatic symptoms of various kinds, or perhaps in some cases never become aware that they are sick, that they have missed true happiness.”
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Personality Problems and Personality Growth" (1956), p. 237
“Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.”
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization. This term, first coined by Kurt Goldstein, is being used in this paper in a much more specific and limited fashion. It refers to the desire for self-fulfillment, namely, to the tendency for him to become actualized in what he is potentially. This tendency might be phrased as the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming.”
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances.”
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.”
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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”
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.”
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The concept of the well-adjusted personality or of good adjustment sets a low ceiling upon the possibility for advancement and for growth. The cow, the slave, the robot may all be well adjusted.”
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[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.”
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to a colleague (November 1960), in Colin Wilson, New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution (1972 [2001]), p. 154
“Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be... In fact it can be said that the possibilities of human nature have customarily been sold short.”
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Toward a Psychology of Being (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962), p. 5
“The higher people get, the more evolved and psychologically healthy people get, the more will enlightened management policy be necessary in order to survive in competition and the more handicapped will be an enterprise with an authoritarian policy.”
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Summer Notes on Social Psychology of Industry and Management (Del Mar, CA: ‎Non-Linear Systems, 1962), p. 81
“The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.”
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Eupsychian Management: A Journal (1965), p. 212
“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.”
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Eupsychian Management: A Journal (1965), p. 213
“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance (1966), ch. 2, p. 15
“Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.”
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (1971)
“If you tell me you have a personality problem, I am not certain until I know you better whether to say "Good" or "I'm sorry". It depends on the reasons...An example is the changing attitude of psychologists toward popularity, toward adjustment, even toward delinquency. Popular with whom? Perhaps it is better for a youngster to be unpopular with the neighboring snobs or with the local country club set. Adjusted to what? To a bad culture? To a dominating parent? What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave? A well-adjusted prisoner? Even the behavior problem boy is being looked upon with new tolerance. Why is he delinquent? Most often it is for sick reasons. But occasionally it is for good reasons and the boy is simply resisting exploitation, domination, neglect, contempt, and trampling upon. Clearly what will be called personality problems depends on who is doing the calling. The slave owner? The dictator? The patriarchal father? The husband who wants his wife to remain a child?”
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Personality Problems and Personality Growth" (1956), p. 237
“For our chronically and extremely hungry man, Utopia can be defined simply as a place where there is plenty of food. He tends to think that, if only he is guaranteed food for the rest of his life, he will be perfectly happy and will never want anything more. Life itself tends to be defined in terms of eating. Freedom, love, community feeling, respect, philosophy, may all be waved aside as fripperies that are useless since they fail to fill the stomach. Such a man may fairly be said to live by bread alone. It cannot possibly be denied that such things are true, but their generality can be denied. Emergency conditions are, almost by definition, rare in the normally functioning peaceful society.”
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source