Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereot….

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the gro….

If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will emerge love and affection and belongingness needs, and the ….

The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg..

If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warne….

We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most oft….

I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major ….

The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, a….

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

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything..

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….

We do what we are and we are what we do..

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

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail..

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again..

What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordin….

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 al….

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting..

Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actuali….

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil..

Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing..