Best Alfred Adler Quotes
- Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy. Antiwar
- To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman. All
- 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… Accordance
- 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… Attitude
- 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… Any
- We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men… All
- The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful. Achievement
- To be human means to feel inferior. Feel
- 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,… Acquisition
- A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous. Dangerous
- There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow. Courage
- It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring. All
- 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
- 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… Begin
- 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… Afraid
- Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or… Ability
- There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side. Defeat
- All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest All
- 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… All
- Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit. Children
- An educator's most important task, one might say his holy duty, is to see to it that no child is discouraged at school, and that… Child
- Everything can always be different! Funny
- Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself. Courage
- 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… Difficulties
- We are not determined by our experiences, but are self-determined by the meaning we give to them; and when we take particular experiences as the… Almost Certain