Abraham Maslow quotes - page 3

Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist and the founder of humanistic psychology. His hierarchy of needs theory is widely recognized in the fields of psychology, education, and business. He emphasized the importance of self-actualization for personal fulfillment and mental health. Here are 58 of his quotes:

Adjusted to what? To a bad culture? To a dominating parent? What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave? A well-adjusted prisoner? (Abraham Maslow)
I maintain now that sickness might consist of not having symptoms when you should. Does health mean being symptom-free? I deny it. View quote
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Freedom, love, community feeling, respect, philosophy, may all be waved aside as fripperies that are useless since they fail to fill the stomach. View quote
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An example is the changing attitude of psychologists toward popularity, toward adjustment, even toward delinquency. View quote
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I am deliberately rejecting our present easy distinction between sickness and health, at least as far as surface symptoms are concerned. View quote
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There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige (defining it as respect or es. View quote
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Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe the former is disturbing. View quote
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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. View quote
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Abraham Maslow

Occupation: American Psychologist
Born: April 1, 1908
Died: June 8, 1970
Quotes count: 58
Wikipedia: Abraham Maslow

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