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One Quotes by Alfred Adler
- It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
- The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
- 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…
- There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear…
- It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
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