Abraham Maslow

Quotes

• “It is too often not realized that culture itself is an adaptive tool, one of whose main functions is to make the physiological emergencies come less and less often.”
• “A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.”
• “It seems quite clear that personality problems may sometimes be loud protests against the crushing of one's psychological bones, of one's true inner nature. What is sick then is not to protest...Most people do not protest...They...pay years later, in neurotic and psychosomatic symptoms of various kinds, or perhaps in some cases never become aware that they are sick, that they have missed true happiness.”
• “Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.”
• “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.”
• “Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances.”

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Key dates

Born

1 April 1908

Died

8 June 1970

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Harold

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Brooklyn

Place of death

Menlo Park

Occupation

psychologist

Employer

Brooklyn College

Languages spoken

English language

Religion

atheism

Academic degree

Doctor of Philosophy

Doctoral advisor

Harry Harlow

Student of

Alfred Adler

Field of work

humanistic psychology

Image

Photo of Abraham Harold Maslow by William Carter (cropped).jpg

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