Top 79 Quotes About Alfred Adler

#1. Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory ... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.

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#2. Every neurotic is partly in the right.

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#3. Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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#4. It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

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#5. It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others.

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#6. It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast
easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all.

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#7. 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.

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#8. The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.

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#9. The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.

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#10. Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and their research harms no one, but it is of no importance at all. A mathematician is great or he is nothing.

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#11. What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?

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#12. This quote begins here. 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. This quote ends here.

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#13. 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.

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#14. Follow your heart always, and remember to take your head along with you.

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#15. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

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#16. Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.

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#17. 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.

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#18. 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.

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#19. To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

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#20. 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.

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#21. The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

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#22. The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

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#23. Everything can always be different!

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#24. He used to say to his melancholia patients:
You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.

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#25. We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

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#26. Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.

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#27. It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.

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#28. Violence as a way of gaining power ... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security ...

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#29. The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.

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#30. There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.

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#31. It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is fro+m among such individuals that all human failures spring.

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#32. It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

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#33. To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.

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#34. All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest

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#35. There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

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#36. It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts"
but by our interpretation of the facts.

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#37. Seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.

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#38. More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain, often strange, relation to reality.

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#39. Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.

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#40. We learn in friendship to look with the eyes of another person, to listen with her ears, and to feel with her heart.

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#41. We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

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#42. Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

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#43. 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.

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#44. What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure ... There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.

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#45. The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

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#46. War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

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#47. Man knows much more than he understands.

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#48. Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

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#49. No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

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#50. My psychology belongs to everyone.

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#51. Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

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#52. We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.

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#53. 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.

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#54. War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

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#55. Follow your heart but take your brain with you.

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#56. If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.

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#57. In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions, but mathematicians cannot discuss their mathematics at all. And the more profound their work, the less understandable it is.

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#58. The widespread belief that Yuppies as a class would perish from Brie-cheese poisoning turned out to be over-optimistic.

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#59. The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.

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#60. Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

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#61. You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

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#62. The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

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#63. I am grateful for the idea that has used me.

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#64. The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

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#65. 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.

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#66. Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.

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#67. All failures are so because they lack social interest.

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#68. 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.

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#69. 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.

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#70. Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

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#71. If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles.

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#72. Every pampered child becomes a hated child ... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.

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#73. The self-bound individual always forgets that his self would be safeguarded better and automatically the more he prepares himself for the welfare of mankind, and that in this respect no limits are set for him.

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#74. There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.

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#75. 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.

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#76. 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.

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#77. 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.

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#78. My difficulties belong to me!

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#79. To be human means to feel inferior.

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