Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself.

I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!

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.

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.

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

I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average man is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capabilities.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.