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Alfred Adler Quotes
Best Quotes by Alfred Adler (Top 10)
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Follow your heart but take your brain with you.
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Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
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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!
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The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
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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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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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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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It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
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The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
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More Alfred Adler Quotes
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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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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
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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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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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Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
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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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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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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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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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The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
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We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
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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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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.
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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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To be human means to feel inferior.
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War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
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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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There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
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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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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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We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.
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Man knows much more than he understands.
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My difficulties belong to me!
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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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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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