Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.

The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.

Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.

One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.

Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.

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