Abraham Maslow Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• 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.

  Abraham Maslow

  Motivation, Reality, Self

• Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.

  Abraham Maslow

  Success, Creativity, Self

• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  Abraham Maslow

  May, Peak Experiences, Therapy

• 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.

  Abraham Maslow

  Eye, Order, Capacity To Love

  "Toward a Psychology of Being".

• 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.

  Abraham Maslow

  Philosophy, Needs, Sunlight

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.46, John Wiley & Sons

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