To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
All neurotic symptoms have as their object the task of safeguarding the patient's self-esteem and thereby also the lifeline into which he… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
In this case, the neurotic resembles a human being who looks up to God, commends himself to His ways, and then religiously… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind… — Alfred Adler Copy Share
Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life. — Alfred Adler Copy Share
What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head? — Alfred Adler Copy Share
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… — Alfred Adler Copy Share
Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding principle, losing… — Alfred Adler Copy Share
The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex. — Alfred Adler Copy Share
There are thousands of degrees and variations, but it is always clearly the attitude of a person who finds his superiority in solving the… — Alfred Adler Copy Share
You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a… — Alfred Adler Copy Share
It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts. — Alfred Adler Copy Share
In God's nature, religious mankind perceives the way to height. In His call it hears again the innate voice of life which must have… — Alfred Adler Copy Share
Every pampered child becomes a hated child… There is no greater evil than the pampering of children. — Alfred Adler Copy Share
