Alfred Adler Quotes

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• The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
• 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…
• The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
• 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…
• It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
• Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
• Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
• 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…
• 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…
• We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
• 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…
• 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…
• We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.
• There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
• 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,…
• The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
• The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
• War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
• 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.…
• 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…

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