Abraham Maslow Quotes

We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.

We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality.

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.

Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes events?

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.

I am human, all too bloody human.

I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.

She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.

If you ain’t scared… you ain’t human.

We are all human, and all do wrong.

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

If homosexuality being inborn is what makes it acceptable, why does racism being inborn not make racism acceptable? … We are born that way. We don’t choose it. So shouldn’t it be acceptable, excuse - this is according to the way the left thinks about things.

Instead of thinking about talent as something that you acquire, talent should be thought of as something that you develop.

Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound of the wheel that he turns, he never develops the harmony of his being, and instead of putting the stamp of humanity upon his own nature, he becomes nothing more than the imprint of his occupation or of his specialized knowledge.

Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.

Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.

It is not human to be without shame and without desire.

Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person.

Nature has inclined us to love men.

That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.