Abraham Maslow

[Concerning] the usual contempt

[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers … I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church. Abraham Maslow

It is unfortunate to

It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb. Abraham Maslow

I may say that

I may say that B-love, in a profound but testable sense, creates the partner. It gives him a self-image, it gives him self- acceptance, a feeling of love-worthiness, all of which permit him to grow. It is a real question whether the full development of the human being is possible without it. Abraham Maslow

The fact that people

The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost. Abraham Maslow

All the evidence that

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization. Abraham Maslow

Even when adults do

Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in a fashion as if they were endangered, if they are disturbed or dropped suddenly, startled by loud noises, flashing light Abraham Maslow

The best product should

The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit. Abraham Maslow

We have got to

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

Since my mother is

Since my mother is the type that’s called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she’s the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane. Abraham Maslow