We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs..

One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious..

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….

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 socie….

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

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..

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….

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….

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….

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

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

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..

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

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 ….

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

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

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….

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….