Maslow notes that the self-actualized person has a strong desire for privacy; vehemently resists enculturation, but always has a freshness of appreciation; and has a genuine desire to help the human race. Yet “when it comes down to it, in certain basic ways he is like an alien in a strange land. Very few really understand him, however much they may like him.

For only thus, living each moment separately and looking neither forward nor back, could such a life be borne and a man keep himself alive in hope of better days.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.

Written By Karl Popper

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