[The science of psychology] has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illness, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his full psychological height.

Abraham Maslow

Achievable Aspirations

Topic: Self-Cultivation & Health

“The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side. It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illness, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his full psychological height. It is as if psychology has voluntarily restricted itself to only half of its rightful jurisdiction, and that, the darker, meaner half.”

Abraham Maslow

Abraham Harold Maslow (1908 – 1970) was an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization and self-transcendence.

(1908 – 1970) Humanism, Arts and Sciences
Motivation and Personality

Maslow, Abraham H. Motivation and Personality. Harper, 1954, p. 354 [Motivation and Personality: Toward a Positive Psychology, 1954].

Abraham Maslow