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There is a tradition that Renaissance starts with q quarterly quote:

"I have little sympathy with the rather prevalent concept that man is basically irrational, and that his impulses, if not controlled, would lead to destruction of others and self. Man's behavior is exquisitely rational, moving with subtle and ordered complexity toward the goals his organism is endeavoring to achieve. The tragedy for most of us is that our defences keep us from being aware of this rationality, so that consciously we are moving in one direction, while organismically we are moving in another. But in our hypothetical [fully functioning] person there would be no such barriers, and he would be a participant in the rationality of his organism. The only control of impulses which would exist or which would prove necessary is the natural and internal balancing of one need against another and the discovery of behaviors which follow the vector most closely approximating the satisfaction of all needs.

"The experience of extreme satisfaction of one need ...in such a way as to do violence to the satisfaction of other needs...would simply be unknown... He would participate.... in such a fashion as to live harmoniously, with himself and with others."

"Toward Becoming a Fully Functioning Person" by Carl Rogers in Perceiving, Behaving, and Becoming: A New Focus for Education, Yearbook, 1962, p. 31,Arthur W. Combs, Ed. Washington, DC: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.