Best Alfred Adler Sayings
- 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… Certain
- The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority. Conquest
- I am grateful for the idea that has used me. Grateful
- In this case, the neurotic resembles a human being who looks up to God, commends himself to His ways, and then religiously awaits how the… Awaits
- 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,… Affliction
- 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… Always Forgets
- The widespread belief that Yuppies as a class would perish from Brie-cheese poisoning turned out to be over-optimistic. Belief
- 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. Accusation
- 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,… Admissible
- 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… All
- 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… Afraid
- Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life. Adopts
- Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. Action
- 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… All
- 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… Cured
- Follow your heart but take your brain with you. Advice
- seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another. Another Listening
- Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted. Admired
- War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. Community
- Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles. Battle
- Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security... Camouflaged
- 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… Absence
- There is no thing as a man who does not create mathematics and yet is a fine mathematics teacher. Textbooks, course material-these do not approach… Active
- 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,… Accomplished
- It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear… Appear