Quote

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.

Abraham Maslow

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Abraham Maslow
Age: 62 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 1
Died: 1970
Died: June 8
Psychologist
Sociologist
University Teacher
Brooklyn
New York
Abraham Harold Maslow
Maslow
Human
Heroes
Unaided
Humans
Gods
Sages
Need
Explain
Disbelief
Take
Saint
Statesmen
Needs
Mere
Supernatural
Good
Hero
Sage
Beings
Saints
Wise
Refuge

More quotes by Abraham Maslow

Image
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
Abraham Maslow
Image
The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love.
Abraham Maslow
Image
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
Abraham Maslow
Image
I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.
Abraham Maslow
Image
I may say that B-love, in a profound but testable sense, creates the partner. It gives him a self-image, it gives him self- acceptance, a feeling of love-worthiness, all of which permit him to grow. It is a real question whether the full development of the human being is possible without it.
Abraham Maslow
Image
A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues.
Abraham Maslow
Image
Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.
Abraham Maslow
Image
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.
Abraham Maslow
Image
The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.
Abraham Maslow
Image
We do what we are and we are what we do.
Abraham Maslow
Image
Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.
Abraham Maslow
Image
Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.
Abraham Maslow
Image
The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
Abraham Maslow
Image
It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
Abraham Maslow
Image
Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.
Abraham Maslow
Image
(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.
Abraham Maslow
Image
My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and closer together, and may perhaps turn out to be the same thing
Abraham Maslow
Image
Man is a perpetually wanting animal.
Abraham Maslow
Image
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Abraham Maslow
Image
To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay for its benefits... Therefore, while using language, as we must of necessity, we should be aware of its shortcomings.
Abraham Maslow