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The Fact Is That People Are Good, Give People Affection And Security, And They Will Give Affection And Be Secure In Their Feelings And Their Behavior.

People With Intelligence Must Use Their Intelligence, People With Eyes Must Use Their Eyes, People With The Capacity To Love Have The Impulse To Love And The Need To Love In Order To Feel Healthy. Capacities Clamor To Be Used, And Cease Their Clamor Only When They Are Used Sufficiently. That Is To Say, Capacities Are Needs, And Therefore Are Intrinsic Values As Well.

The Good Or Healthy Society Would Then Be Defined As One That Permitted People's Highest Purposes To Emerge By Satisfying All Their Basic Needs.

There Are No Perfect Human Beings! Persons Can Be Found Who Are Good, Very Good Indeed, In Fact, Great. There Do In Fact Exist Creators, Seers, Sages, Saints, Shakers, And Movers...even If They Are Uncommon And Do Not Come By The Dozen. And Yet These Very Same People Can At Times Be Boring, Irritating, Petulant, Selfish, Angry, Or Depressed. To Avoid Disillusionment With Human Nature, We Must First Give Up Our Illusions About It.

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 Illnesses, His Sins, But Little About His Potentialities, His Virtues, His Achievable Aspirations Or His Psychological Health... We Must Find Out What Psychology Might Be If It Could Free Itself From The Stultifying Effects Of Limited, Pessimistic And Stingy Preoccupations With Human Nature.