251 Quotes by Abraham Maslow

What is life for? Life is for you.

It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

What conditions of work, what kinds of work, what kinds of management, and what kinds of reward or pay will help human stature to grow healthy, to its fuller and fullest stature ? Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of hum

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.

To objectify our subjective thought so as to be able to look at it and improve it toward perfection. To seek peak experiences.

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.

During all my first twenty years, I was depressed, terribly unhappy, lonely, isolated (and self-rejecting).