Quotes that Make you think

"The purpose of sociology [psychology or anthropology - really, any social science] is to enable the individual to see the everyday - the ordinary and mundane details of life - in a new way; to challenge, as it were, the perceived notions we hold of the world and the institutions and peoples that inhabit it."

- Peter Berger, Sociologist


Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it. - Anon.


Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs




Abraham Maslow, Motivation and Personality, 2nd ed., Harper & Row, 197

Note: it is only when primary needs have been met that the organism
can entertain higher needs