What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.

Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.

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

Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just, for doing what is worthwhile and for preferring to do it well.

The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within — and make the point: This can be done.

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.