“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.”
Quote by Abraham Maslow
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Abraham Maslow
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. more
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