Abraham Maslow

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• 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.

  “A Theory of Human Motivation”, in Psychological Review, vol. 50, no. 4 (1943), p. 382

  • Motivation & Goals

• I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

  The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance (1966), ch. 2, p. 15

  • Thinking

• Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.

  The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (1971)

  • Education

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy