In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life. Abraham Maslow More Quotes by Abraham Maslow More Quotes From Abraham Maslow We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. Abraham Maslow inspiration calling work Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family. Abraham Maslow motivation self inspirational Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be. Abraham Maslow human-nature humans science 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 essence self-esteem spiritual I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane. Abraham Maslow insane curiosity insanity People are not evil; they are schlemiels. Abraham Maslow evil people The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations or his psychological health... We must find out what psychology might be if it could free itself from the stultifying effects of limited, pessimistic and stingy preoccupations with human nature. Abraham Maslow psychology successful men What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion. Abraham Maslow ions self men Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment. Abraham Maslow inspirational-life alive men The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. Abraham Maslow time motivational inspirational What one can be, one must be! Abraham Maslow mindset military inspirational 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. Abraham Maslow healthy self-esteem fame The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short. Abraham Maslow race inspirational men Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world. Abraham Maslow common-sense mean people Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred. Abraham Maslow peak-experiences sacred laughing The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy Abraham Maslow psychology yield philosophy What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my relation to it? What are my obligations to society? What is best for my children? What is justice? Truth? Virtue? What is my relation to nature, to death, to aging, to pain, to illness? How can I live a zestful, enjoyable, meaningful life? What is my responsibility to my brothers? Who are my brothers? What shall I be loyal to? What must I be ready to die for? Abraham Maslow brother meaningful children We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion. Abraham Maslow able lost world Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world. Abraham Maslow real self men (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 gratitude thanksgiving appreciation
