Psychology
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Nietzsche Said This
What does not kill me, makes me stronger.” Most people do not know the origin, of this very popular quote. It can be found in German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s 1888 book, Twilight of the Idols (German: Götzen-Dämmerung). Friedrich Nietzsche is known to have suffered much pain in his life; both physically and psychologically. So, in a way, Nietzsche earned the right to comment on the life experience of pain.
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
A Theory of Human Motivation A. H. Maslow (1943) Originally Published in Psychological Review, 50, 370-396. [p. 370] I. INTRODUCTION In a previous paper (13) various propositions were presented which would have to be included in any theory of human motivation that could lay claim to being definitive. These conclusions may be briefly summarized as follows: 1. The integrated wholeness of the organism must be one of the foundation stones of motivation theory. 2. The hunger drive (or any other physiological drive) was rejected as a centering point or model for a definitive theory of motivation. Any drive that is somatically based and localizable was shown to be atypical rather…