Quote By Abraham Maslow

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.

Abraham Maslow

Balance Evil Realism

Abraham Maslow

Abraham Maslow

Psychologist and Creator of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Abraham Maslow, an American psychologist, revolutionized psychology with his theory of human motivation and self-actualization.

Explanation Of The Quote

Maslow critiques both overly negative and naïve worldviews. He suggests that acknowledging both good and evil is essential for psychological realism. This quote encourages balanced awareness and warns against extreme thinking.

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One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

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 isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I'd rather go down with my flag flying. If you're weak or crippled, or you can't speak out or fight back in some way, then people don't hesitate to treat you badly.

I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

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.

Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

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