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«The fact is that people are good, if only their fundamental wishes are satisfied, their wish for affection and security. Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Affection,
Humanity,
Wishes
| Keywords:
affection, behavior, fundamental, secure, security
«If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
etc., etc, in the long run, long run, orderly, short run, The Long Run
«We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Talent
| Keywords:
callings, capacities, missions, talents
«But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
behavior, communication, concealing, defense, hiding, Human communication, motives, preventing
«To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.»
«The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within - and make the point : This can be done.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
impulse, recover, The Meaning of Life, voices, worthwhileness
«Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.»
«The neurosis in which the search for safety takes its clearest form is in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis. Compulsive-obsessive to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
compulsive, dangers, frantically, obsessive, safety, stabilize, stabilized, stabilizing, The Search, unexpected, unfamiliar, unfamiliar with, unmanageable
«To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Problems
| Keywords:
hammer, hammer in, nail, toolkit
«One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Potential
| Keywords:
failing, king, live up to, possibilities, potentialities, potentiality, rival, rivaled, treated
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