Abraham Maslow

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior. ”

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. ”

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation. ”

What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in. ”

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. ”

With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends. ”

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. ”

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be. ”

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body. ”

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself. ”