Abraham Maslow Quotes about Children

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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.

Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.

Abraham Maslow

Children, Creativity, Birth

What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my relation to it? What are my obligations to society? What is best for my children? What is justice? Truth? Virtue? What is my relation to nature, to death, to aging, to pain, to illness? How can I live a zestful, enjoyable, meaningful life? What is my responsibility to my brothers? Who are my brothers? What shall I be loyal to? What must I be ready to die for?

Abraham Maslow

Meaningful, Brother, Children

A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world.

Abraham Maslow

Children, Routine, World

Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

Abraham Maslow

Mother, Children, Crazy

Attributed to Abraham Maslow in "New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution" by Colin Wilson, 1972.

If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies.

Abraham Maslow

Baby, Children, Home

[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church.

Abraham Maslow

Children, Science, Thinking

"New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution". Book by Colin Wilson, November 1960.