The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.

Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle... knowledge exists primarily for use.

Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.

Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self.

Each person is an island unto himself, in a very real sense; and he can only build bridges to other islands if he is first of all willing to be himself and permitted to be himself.