Abraham Maslow

"People with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the impulse to love and the need to love in order to feel healthy. Capacities clamor to be used, and cease their clamor only when they are used sufficiently. That is to say, capacities are needs, and therefore are intrinsic values as well."

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Source: Toward a Psychology of Being.

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Abraham Maslow

Abraham Maslow

Psychologist

Abraham Maslow was a psychologist known for developing the hierarchy of needs, a theory that emphasizes human motivation and self-actualization.

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