Abraham Maslow

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

Abraham Maslow

We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.

Abraham Maslow

What we call ‘normal’ in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don’t even notice it ordinarily.

Abraham Maslow

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 basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.

Abraham Maslow

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

Abraham Maslow

A van backed through my windscreen into my wife’s face.

Abraham Maslow

An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle and vanished.

Abraham Maslow

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

Abraham Maslow

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, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.

Abraham Maslow

Expression and communication in the peak-experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.

Abraham Maslow