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Alfred Adler (Psychologist)

If you dont know where youre going, youll end up somewhere else.
— Alfred Adler you
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
— Alfred Adler love
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
— Alfred Adler happiness
Man knows more than he understands.
— Alfred Adler man
Every neurotic is partly in the right.
— alfred adler art
All our institutions, our traditional attitudes, our laws, our morals, our customs, give evidence of the fact that they are determined and maintained by privileged males for the glory of male domination. These institutions reach out into the very nurseries and have a great influence upon the child’s soul.
— alfred adler soul
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient’s condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
— alfred adler life
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
— alfred adler life
Its easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
— Alfred Adler live
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
— Alfred Adler meaning
If the truth is there, bad writing wont hurt it !
— Alfred Adler truth
The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.
— Alfred Adler life
The test of ones behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
— Alfred Adler sex
There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
— Alfred Adler talent
All neurotic symptoms have as their object the task of safeguarding the patients self-esteem and thereby also the lifeline into which he has grown.
— Alfred Adler life
There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.
— Alfred Adler fear
My psychology belongs to everyone.
— Alfred Adler psychology
It is easier to fight for ones principles than to live up to them.
— Alfred Adler live
What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
— Alfred Adler life
Imperfect preparation gives rise to the thousand-fold forms that express physical and mental inferiority and insecurity.
— Alfred Adler men
The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
— Alfred Adler art
Neurosis is the natural, logical development of an individual who is comparatively inactive, filled with a personal, egocentric striving for superiority, and is therefore retarded in the development of his social interest, as we find regularly among
— Alfred Adler men
The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
— Alfred Adler power
The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and un-fulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.
— Alfred Adler life
All inherited possibilities and all influences of the body, all environmental influences, including educational application, are perceived, assimilated, digested, and answered by a living and striving being, striving for a successful achievement in h
— Alfred Adler education
To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.
— Alfred Adler time
My difficulties belong to me !
— Alfred Adler
Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.
— Alfred Adler power
It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
— Alfred Adler attitude
There are thousands of degrees and variations, but it is always clearly the attitude of a person who finds his superiority in solving the complications of others.
— Alfred Adler attitude
If I didnt have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patients own arrangement, which only he can change.
— Alfred Adler change
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
— Alfred Adler war
We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.
— Alfred Adler will
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
— Alfred Adler bad
We must never neglect the patients own use of his symptoms.
— Alfred Adler
Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
— Alfred Adler feeling
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
— Alfred Adler god
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patients condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
— Alfred Adler life
It is always easier to fight for ones principles than to live up to them.
— Alfred Adler live
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
— Alfred Adler man
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
— Alfred Adler war
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
— Alfred Adler life
The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
— Alfred Adler fiction
The only normal people are the ones you dont know very well.
— Alfred Adler people
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
— Alfred Adler war
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
— Alfred Adler war
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
— Alfred Adler politics
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
— Alfred Adler truth
A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.
— Alfred Adler you
Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
— Alfred Adler death
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
— Alfred Adler fate
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
— Alfred Adler truth

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