Man is ultimately not molded or shaped into humanness. The environment does not give him potentialities and capacities; he has them in inchoate or embryonic form, just exactly as he has embryonic arms and legs. And creativeness, spontaneity, selfhood

Quote by Abraham Maslow

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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves...

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves...

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We...

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We...

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up...

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up...

We may define therapy as a search for value.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

It is too simple to say 'man is basically good' or 'man is basically evil'....

It is too simple to say 'man is basically good' or 'man is basically evil'....

If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it...

If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it...

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like...

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like...

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically...

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically...

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest...

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest...

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives...

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives...

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

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

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he...

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he...

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

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

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up...

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up...

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will...

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will...

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could...

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could...