When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.

Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.

In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some attributes, rejection of other attributes, creation or distortion of still others. We make of it what we wish. We create it.

One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.