A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
ABRAHAM MASLOWThe spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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What one can be, one must be!
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
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Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
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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.
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We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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