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Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist born on April 1, 1908, and died on June 8, 1970. He was a pioneer in humanistic psychology and proposed Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which had a profound impact on the field of psychology.

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“The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.”

People Needs Purpose Healthy Highest Defined Satisfying Basic Needs Healthy Society

Author:Abraham Maslow

“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.”

Needs Humans Philosophy Values Human Beings Life Philosophy Live By Sunlight Framework Surrogates Calcium

Book:The Maslow Business Reader

Source: The Maslow Business Reader

“Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.”

“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 growth choice a dozen times a day.”

Needs Life Is Choices Process Growth Progress Risk Safety Sake Defense Dozen Ongoing

Author:Abraham Maslow

“Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.”

Ifs Needs Writing Humans May Self Artist Motivation Peace Human Beings Music Vision Poet Personality Musician Paint Being True Self Actualization Actualization Music Artist

Author:Abraham Maslow

“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.”

Ifs Needs Humans Human Beings Wise Hero Mere Saint Refuge Sage Disbelief Statesmen

Author:Abraham Maslow

“When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.”

People Needs Humans Self Pain Security Self Esteem Stress Esteem Decent Reacting Deprivation Self Actualization Human Needs Basic Needs Actualization Basic Human Needs

Book:Toward a Psychology of Being

Source: Toward a Psychology of Being

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

Needs Communication Block Censorship Secrecy Dishonesty Basic Needs

Author:Abraham Maslow

“People with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the impulse to love and the need to love in order to feel healthy. Capacities clamor to be used, and cease their clamor only when they are used sufficiently. That is to say, capacities are needs, and therefore are intrinsic values as well.”

People Needs Feels Wells Use Eye Used Values Order Healthy Capacity Cease Impulse Clamor Capacity To Love Intrinsic Value

Author:Abraham Maslow

“If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will emerge love and affection and belongingness needs, and the whole cycle already described will repeat itself with this new centre. Now the person will feel keenl”

Ifs Needs Feels Wells Persons Whole Reality Safety Affection Repeats Cycles Centre Physiological Love And Affection

Author:Abraham Maslow

“What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.”

Men Needs Self Self Actualization Actualization Self Fulfillment Ions

Author:Abraham Maslow

“Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just, for doing what is worthwhile and for preferring to do it well.”

Needs Humans Wells Has Beens Responsibility Human Nature Higher Fairs Meaningful Worthwhile Creativeness Meaningful Work

Author:Abraham Maslow

About the Author

Born: April 1, 1908
Died: June 8, 1970
Known for: Psychologist
Quotes: 157

Books & Sources

Toward a Psychology of BeingRelated source material

The Maslow Business ReaderRelated source material

Motivation and PersonalityRelated source material

Maslow on managementRelated source material

A Theory of Human MotivationRelated source material

Future visions: the unpublished papers of Abraham MaslowRelated source material

On Dominance, Self-Esteem, and Self-ActualizationRelated source material

American politics and humanistic psychologyRelated source material

The healthy personality: readingsRelated source material

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